Yogurt yes or no?
 

Not a thrilling topic but on a recent trip
2 cups of yogurt at SFO checkpoint no problem
3 cups of yogurt at JFK wont let through

Nothing on TSA website i can find
Anyone have food experiences like this?

thanks

I think yogurt counts as a "gel."

If you can fit the yogurt containers into the Kippie baggie, and each container is 3.4oz or less in volume, then there's no reason why TSA would prevent you from brining the yogurt through.


I had the same issue with peanut butter, which is considered a "gel." Now, I make the sandwiches in advance instead of bringing a tub of PB with me.

Oh no! Please protect me from the explosive power of yogurt!!

The TSA has not defined what they consider a liquid. They do not follow any physical or chemical definition. They just decide at whim.

A few wacky examples: peanut butter alone is a liquid, but on bread it is not. Pie is not a liquid, but ready made pie filling is. Gel filled inserts over boobs are OK, but gel filled inserts in your carry on are not. Grapes are not liquid. Liquid filled chocolates are not liquid. Snow globes are. In fact, snow globes are a no-no no matter what their size is, even under 100 ml and in the baggie (why?? someone plotting with snow globes???). The insoles of my super comfy travel shoes (which have gel in them, I found out that day) are not OK, unless a supervisor is convinced, and allows them as long as they can fit in the Kippy baggie.

Here is an important unanswered question: after how many days of aging does brie turn from a solid to a liquid per TSA rules? I would really like to know, since I like brie, and it makes a delicious snack on those long food-deprived flights...

Ha...now we can get into the classic physics argument, are our glass containers actually liquids?

There molecules are disordered (as are molecules in a liquid), however, rigidly bound. Certainly confusing enough to cause a problem with the TSA. :)

I'm sorry the snow globe prohibition is all my wife's fault. When she went to visit her birth mother for the first time, she bought a couple of snow globes. She could fit one in her Freedom bag but could not fit the other. The TSO that prevented her from boarding with the second globe was kind enough to take it from the screening area and give it to my wife's sister.

I am guessing a higher up saw that TSO's kindness as an inconvenience that needed to be Kipped in the bud. Kinda like the illegal forced ID verification was a response to less than one person per airport refusing to show ID on any given day.

Wow, that must have been before the following rule went into effect:

Snow globes and like decorations regardless of size or amount of liquid inside, even with documentation. Carry-on: No


http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtrav...ted-items.shtm

That story is great though. I will forever blame Trollkiller Wife for not being able to hand cary snowglobes.

Oddly enough yes just before that rule was put into place.

My wife, The Mysterious Leah, apologizes for the snow globe thing. She promises that she did not try to make any problems for the world at large. I just hope the TSO did not get fired for his helpfulness.

That is the only explanation I have ever heard regarding the snow globe thing, and I think that, given all other TSA rules, it is a very believable one. Unless a TSO here can come up with a more logical explanation why snow globes are prohibited regardless of size, I am going to stick with TK's explanation.

Since TSA has never given us a reason for it, blaming The Mysterious Leah is as good of one as any.

Personally, I like the Mysterious Leah theory! But if that turns out to be untrue, TSA could blame it on the potential ignition issue on a daytime flight. Though they haven't (so far as I know) prohibited magnifying glasses.

I sure hope I haven't just given TSA a reason for additional prohibitions!

Great now they will start taking glasses from old people.

I had an issue with cottage cheese in the past, and I'm assuming yogurt would be treated in the same way, that is, there is no uniform policy.

PIT TSA regularly let cottage cheese through.
CMH TSA insisted that it was a liquid.

I got so annoyed with the arbitrary policies that I gave up.

And of course, snow globes are for sale in at least one past security store in CLT.