we are getting somewhere!

but i confess, the food was NOT purchased inside the airport. i'm on a health kick and i bring my own food everywhere. it was my own food, in one of those reusable canvas-ish bags. the bag itself, if fully expanded and stuffed, would indeed be over the top, but in this case it just had some food at the bottom.

I suppose this rule should be read for its original intent - if it says food bought inside security, that was added to purposely exclude food brought in from the outside.

Which just makes me think....hide my healthy lunch in a disposeable airport vendor shopping bag next time, instead of my environmentally friendly reusable canvas bag.