Originally Posted by
ND Sol
But you did claim otherwise. You say that you were not a real fan, which implies that you have seen and tasted it. You say that it "has the consistency of paste" as a matter of fact statement. But now your total knowledge basis is what you have seen in James Bond movies?
You miss my point and that is because of your mindset. Foie gras is not a threat to aviation security. You are coming from a perspective that everything is dangerous until proven otherwise. I am not worried that when I buy foie gras at the grocery store that it is going to explode in my shopping cart. Should I be?
And here we are back at the beginning, again. What it says on the outside of the jar/can/whatever, does not mean that is what is inside. Just because you "say" that it is foie gras does not mean that it is. We "know" that explosives come in paste form, just as they come in liquid form, rope form, block form, powder form, and a whole bunch of other types of forms. Just because it says "Water" on the outside, or foie gras, does that mean that what is inside must be what the package tells us?
Are you saying that we should believe the word of everyone about the things they bring through the checkpoint? "Gee, that’s not a chainsaw, it’s a pillow!"? "That’s not a gun, it’s a lighter." Are you of the opinion that when faced with a TSO at the checkpoint that everyone is going to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth?
You may be naive enough to buy that, but please don’t assume that I or my fellow TSO’s are.