LUX-LGW - Can I bring a tart in my hand luggage
Mar 18, 2010, 4:17 am
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Its Ms Pucci - or Her Highness to you , Dear! The only mystery to me is that someone with the propensities to stir as you clearly demonstrate has got this far in life and still manages to live and breathe. I will confess that I thought that the temptation would prove too much, but realised that it was St Patrick's day (God the Americans are more into it than the Irish if that is possible - the din in this hotel had me out laying down the law at 2.00am llking like Jordan on a good night.) so he is probably still sleeping it off in some ditch waiting for his Mrs to go to work so that he can crawl back in!
NickB and Johnny5A - you are both now Mucci Gold Class for gastronomis taste. I did not expect to find such delicacies mentioned in a thread about handling tarts.
Me? I have brought choucroutte garnie from my favourite street market (Rue Monceau), Foie Gras, Munster cheese, Cantal Fermier, Saucisses de Toulouse and Strasbourg, Andouillette (and Andouille from a little Charcuterie that I know) - Cervelles d'Agneau are hard to obtain and fiddly to prepare but I have a little Boucher who takes care of that. Charantais melons usually get a special check - but at least all the above are recognised and understood for taste and compliance by the security staff at CDG.
NickB and Johnny5A - you are both now Mucci Gold Class for gastronomis taste. I did not expect to find such delicacies mentioned in a thread about handling tarts.
Me? I have brought choucroutte garnie from my favourite street market (Rue Monceau), Foie Gras, Munster cheese, Cantal Fermier, Saucisses de Toulouse and Strasbourg, Andouillette (and Andouille from a little Charcuterie that I know) - Cervelles d'Agneau are hard to obtain and fiddly to prepare but I have a little Boucher who takes care of that. Charantais melons usually get a special check - but at least all the above are recognised and understood for taste and compliance by the security staff at CDG.
Mar 18, 2010, 5:21 am
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Mar 18, 2010, 5:28 am
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I have found that "don't ask don't tell" is the best policy with some of the more squeamish eaters... 
Re cervelle, I was pleasantly surprised to find it on the menu of a wee Lyon bouchon (and no, I don't mean 'cervelle de canut', although nice enough in its own right, but actual cervelle).
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Mar 18, 2010, 6:44 am
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Mar 18, 2010, 6:46 am
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I have found that "don't ask don't tell" is the best policy with some of the more squeamish eaters... I am deeply honoured. What can I say? I fear that I have no choice but put my republican feelings in abeyance and bow before Her Supreme Highness.
Re cervelle, I was pleasantly surprised to find it on the menu of a wee Lyon bouchon (and no, I don't mean 'cervelle de canut', although nice enough in its own right, but actual cervelle).
Yes, I think this is what lies behind the understanding behaviour of security staff at French airports. There is often some close inspection and scratching of heads with some food items but they usually let it through on the realisation of what inhumane treatment it would be to deprive a fellow human being of such essentials, especially if one is headed towards a gastronomically challenged region of the world.
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Mar 18, 2010, 6:58 am
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I had thought long and hard on a suitably worded post yesterday but the only thing I could come up with was " I know a old tart who flies regularly with BA without having any problems at security".....A bit obvious so I scrubbed it.
Mar 18, 2010, 6:58 am
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I'v managed to avoid this thread, knowing what was inside, but after a bad morning, this and some nice soup are brightening up the day.
Although I've never experienced taking a tart through T5, I have never had any problem taking my salted chocolate balls through (details here)which as they have a rich and creamy liquid centre should be picked up by the scanners.
Although I've never experienced taking a tart through T5, I have never had any problem taking my salted chocolate balls through (details here)which as they have a rich and creamy liquid centre should be picked up by the scanners.
Mar 18, 2010, 9:52 am
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A bit lethal so you scrubbed it more like. Call it the saving grace of second thought. I know a 2 ton Moose who gets most irate when the Love of His Life is insulted.
Mar 18, 2010, 1:18 pm
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salted chocolate balls (details here).
Mar 23, 2010, 4:35 am
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