'[I] had plenty of time to make my sandwiches': Traveller foils TSA agent with airport-proof travel food

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    Font - TSA Story: Peanut Butter is a Liquid SOC I suppose this is the best place for this story
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    Font - Happened to me about 7 years ago. I travelled for work and they gave us a flat perdiem for food, no receipts required. We also would be at the same location for 1 to 4 weeks. It wasn't a great perdiem but no questions asked. So in order to bring back every penny I would buy groceries and keep them in my hotel fridge. Also kept from becoming 20% Chilibee's Tuesday Roadhouse.
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    Font - I was traveling back and got to TSA screening and after they scanned my bags the agent informed me that the unopened 7lb heirloom lavender peanut butter and the jelly would have be tossed. This was a lie, it was not going to be thrown away, I could tell by the way her eyes covered it that it would not make it to the trash can. I'm pretty serious about my peanut butter and jelly and it was not the cheap stuff.
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    Font - So I said could I have it back and give it to someone who was arriving so they could keep it. This was also a lie. She could tell.
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    Font - After she handed it back and while I was collecting my bags we had a brief discussion on the nature of liquids. I could see she was ready to move on. Then I asked if peanut butter was ok if it was in sandwich form. With a petty glee she said, "of course. Yes. if if the peanut butt....."
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    Font - I saw defeat wash over face midsentence as I pulled out a nearly full loaf of bread and utensils. I was 3 hours early for my flight and had plenty of time to make my sandwiches
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    Plant - The other TSA officers chuckled and nudged each other as I made my way through security a second time with a bread bag of PB&Js.
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    Font - Edit just to give some context, because people keep posting ( does kid who reminds teacher about homework voice),"the tsa clearly lists peanut butter as a liquid."
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    Font - This happened in the days of yor. The TSA was still young, iphone was never going to outsell BlackBerry, unlimited data plans were actually unlimited, you tube was curiosity, and few people outside of the book trades had heard of Amazon. I had an erricson Walkman phone.
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    Font - I had traveled dozens of time without peanutbutter being a problem through some of the nations largest airports without any issues. And here is some podunk airport TSA agent telling me my 7 pounds of hippy made heirloom apple lavender peanut butter after looking at longn a seemingly hand blown jar is not allowed on board. Well what would you think.
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    Font - piratesmashy Omg. I once had a 225g brick of locally produced goats milk cheddar that the TSA decided was a gel (it had softened over the course of the day). I had to fight to get it back so I could rage eat it outside the security area. I got so many strange looks. But d that was a good cheese! I just wish they'd have let me eat half and bring the other half on board...
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    Font - nun_the_wiser Five years ago, my husband bought a jar of cookie butter. We don't have it in our country and he couldn't comprehend what it was. So he needed to try it. But he didn't have time to eat it so he thought, I'll bring it home it with me. Surely this is not a liquid. But alas, TSA said it was a liquid and my husband is still mad about it.
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    Font - LongPast DueDate I've lived off of per diem while traveling on business many times. I always shopped locally, though. I never thought to bring food from home.
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    Font - garaks_tailor OP. This was on the way back but yeah I took food both ways. Especially when travelling to certain areas that had the increased per diem due to cost of living. The only time they did receipt sites was in Alaska. S was so expensive.
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    Font - [deleted] I brought my hair product, a clay slightly thicker than peanut butter, and the TSA at the self-proclaimed "America's friendliest airport" took it. When I tried to explain it's not a liquid, they said if it's the same consistency of peanut butter it's a liquid. It wasn't, dude.
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    Font - It's also because the container said 4oz, and the liquid limit is 3.4oz... what the idiot couldn't recognize was that the limit is 3.4 fluid oz, a volume measurement, and the container was 4oz in weight. It lists a weight because it's not a liquid. It's like saying "our limit is 2 cubic feet, and this weighs more than 2 lbs, therefore it's not allowed" like what? He was the supervisor too... I gave him a nice elementary school lesson as I walked away though. Still lost my hair product.
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    Font - glensueand TSA agents are inconsistent. I bought travel size toiletries for a trip - nothing over 3 oz. The TSA agent threw half of them away because she said I had TOO MANY. What?! Why!? She said total toiletries had to fit in a sandwich bag. My sister, who had the same amount of toiletries went through without a word. Arrg!

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