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Old Dec 20, 2018, 10:59 am
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petaluma1
 
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Originally Posted by CMK10
My sister in law baked me a banana cream pie. It's your standard type of pie: graham cracker crust, bananas and cream. I had eaten one slice then packed up the rest to take home to RDU. Unfortunately, DCA TSA determined this cream was "too much of a liquid". I said this was ridiculous and that pie was a food and the agent said in a baffling argument "so is water". I said by his argument I couldn't take a meatball sub through security and he said that was true as marinara was a liquid too.

So I had to throw out 7/8s of a pie. Utterly ridiculous.
https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-...pies-and-cakes

I hope you did as the poster above said and made sure it was not edible. If what the screener said was so, then few pies would ever be allowed through a checkpoint. However, "screener discretion" prevails.

That said, here's a perfect example of TSA nonsense regarding pies and cakes: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/26188997-post1.html

Why don't you file a complaint with the DHS IG: https://hotline.oig.dhs.gov/hotline/hotline.php Name names if you can.
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