Maple butter in carry-on?
 

Has anybody tried bringing maple butter in their carry-on?

Want to bring a few jars as gifts but from the CATSA web site “All liquid food in your carry-on (for example, yogurt, pudding or jam) must be in containers of 100 ml or less. All containers must fit in the same clear, closed, resealable 1 litre plastic bag, as all other containers of liquids, aerosols or gels you are carrying.”

Yup, the best ever. In YQB. They didn't let me through. :td: :td:

I got a look when my liquid bag was filled with mini syrups & butters, was able to find all of them <100ml.

You can buy maple butter past security in YUL - at least on the domestic side.

If you buy the miniature bottles with 100mL or less, you can just stick them in your LAG bag like you would with your other liquids. Otherwise you're out of luck.

I've carried ice cream (don't ask) through the CATSA checkpoint at YYC before. It triggered a bag perusal but I was allowed to keep it.

So on the same basis, ice would be ok. Likely not I suspect.

We had olive paste taken a couple of years ago, which is more a finely chopped solid than a paste or liquid.

Well, if the butter is frozen, you could argue it´s a solid, not a liquid.:p

When they start arguing "but it could melt" you could respond "so does almost anything under the right circumstances"

You could also question why glasses aren´t confiscated even though it´s considered to be a liquid, not solid. (at least in the field of thermodynamics and other fields of chemistry)

At that point the agent will probably/hopefully give in.:D

or you'll be flagged and sent to secondary screening for the considerable future

Definitely no. I had creamed honey confiscated and it sure looked SOLID as heck to me!

I've not been able to take jam though, so I doubt maple butter would make it. Put it in your checked baggage.

When I had the jam I was lucky to have a backpack with me, so I just took my camera out and checked in my backpack with the jar of jam in it. I got the same agent that I had checked my suitcase with a few min earlier and we joked about the very dangerous blackcurrants that had been made into jam. Definitely a threat to national security those blackcurrants are...

Ice is solid but not allowed. You could argue the maple butter thing all you want, but the chances of getting someone to give in is pretty low. :p Avoid all the BS and just check it.

Yes, my comment was more tongue-in-cheek. It rarely makes sense to argue with security unless the policies clearly state you´re right.

Cheese is a liquid according to security agents. That one threw me completely!

If you were told that about solid cheese (not cream cheese) you'd have a case to argue it or make a complaint if arguing does nothing.