Peanut Butter or Cheese allowed?
Jul 2, 2008, 7:20 pm
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Peanut Butter or Cheese allowed?
Does anyone have past experience bringing a jar of peanut butter (just regular, not anything special or homemade) past security? Or a small "brick" of cheese, something common like Velveeta (not spread)?
Please, please, do NOT quote from the TSA website. I am interested in hearing if anyone has (first hand) been told that is prohibited by a TSA person.
Please, please, do NOT quote from the TSA website. I am interested in hearing if anyone has (first hand) been told that is prohibited by a TSA person.
Jul 2, 2008, 8:11 pm
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I have not had any problems so far with PB Sandwiches.....
Jul 2, 2008, 8:32 pm
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I travel a lot with my family - wife, 4yo & 1 yo. We have carried as many as 1/2 a dozen PB&Js though multiple airport TSA checkpoints without problem. ^
I also fly to MKE a lot, and as a person who formerly lived in WI, and can't seem to find good cheese on the East Coast (Vermont cheddar is awful!) I have at times carried as much as 8 pounds of block cheese in my carry on.
I wouldn't expect a jar of peanut butter to make it though.
I also fly to MKE a lot, and as a person who formerly lived in WI, and can't seem to find good cheese on the East Coast (Vermont cheddar is awful!) I have at times carried as much as 8 pounds of block cheese in my carry on.
I wouldn't expect a jar of peanut butter to make it though.
Jul 2, 2008, 8:43 pm
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the TSOs on here have said that there is no restriction on something like a PBJ sandwich or pizza or something like that
Jul 2, 2008, 10:12 pm
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I think that you should be just fine bring your own sandwiches into sterile area. I don't see anything more specific information from TSA this time. You can make it your own sandwiches at home before you come to airports. I think TSA had been not a common problems with Peanut butter & Jelly, too.
Jul 3, 2008, 7:00 am
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What about an empty jar, a sandwich 4" thick and a spoon to put it back in the jar once I clear the screening? Such a stupid rule. 
It cheddar safer than brie because it is definitely a solid while brie can get runny?
It cheddar safer than brie because it is definitely a solid while brie can get runny?
Jul 3, 2008, 7:14 am
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Jul 3, 2008, 7:16 am
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Jul 3, 2008, 7:17 am
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With the right temperature applied almost anything can be a liquid.
Jul 3, 2008, 7:21 am
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Hard cheese (eg: cheddar) is allowed. Soft cheese, such as cottage, is not.
If the TSA finds you with over 3 ounces of cottage cheese, it will call an LEO.
Officially this is known as, "Cheezit -- the cops!"
If the TSA finds you with over 3 ounces of cottage cheese, it will call an LEO.
Officially this is known as, "Cheezit -- the cops!"
Jul 3, 2008, 7:33 am
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As someone who works with cheese for a living, I have to snicker when I read stuff like this - especially since cottage cheese curd and cheddar cheese curd have about the same consistency coming out of a cheese vat. Cottage cheese just gets dumped in a milk/cream dressing.