Well, I wondered too, because basically it meant she was taking my word for it. Maybe the theory is that no one would admit to carrying scrapple unless they were.

I grew up eating scrapple every Saturday morning for breakfast. It was a real treat in my home, and now that I live about 2300 miles of the nearest stoer that sells scrapple, I always try to pick some up when I'm in Pennsylvania. If you haven't tried it, don't knock it.

To get this back on topic, I wonder what the procedure is for "taking people's word for it", so to speak. Basically, an item showed up as a questionable/unidentifiable object, and when the passenger (me) was questioned, their explanation was accepted without actually verifying it.