Goodbye Ponk Pie Hat

Science fact! Only a few animals like humans, bats and guinea pigs can even suffer from scurvy. More fortunate creatures like horses and pirates make their own vitamin C!(Actually, pirates probably put in at safe ports fairly regularly to lie low or spend their loot, and would have eaten fresh provisions as a result. Though their record keeping tended to be terrible. Its the navy boys on long voyages with crap food who got the worst of it, and though they'd mostly figured out the thing with the lemons and limes by the 18th century they managed to forget the cure in the late 19th and early 20th century in a bureaucratic cock-up. So all those brave polar exploration expeditions? Scurvy-ridden death marches.)