Originally Posted by
LessO2
Opaque, dense items. Bars of soap, large tubes of toothpaste, blocks of cheese (not kidding). Those are examples.
Some TSAers are "certified" to allow the things like toothpaste through when they see it, but they still sometimes get pulled aside.
The last time I flew WN out of BWI, a TSO there sarcastically advised me that I was not permitted my bar of Ivory soap, since, when sitting next to my shoes in my carry-on, she thought the combination of shoelaces and the soap looked like a bomb (her words, not mine)...I have also had a three-pack of Ivory (one of only two soaps I have found that I don't react to) removed on two separate occasions when I have checked my luggage (only if I have tools that I cannot get in the destination).