Pasta is a liquid
Jan 18, 2009, 7:26 am
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Pasta is a liquid
Gatwick airport last week.
I had picked up some pasta at the M&S Simply Food to cook when I got home that evening and put it in my carryon.
Going through security, the bag gets flagged.
"What's this?"
"Pasta"
"Didn't you read the signs about liquids?"
"Yes, but this is pasta"
"Pasta is a liquid"
"Huh? How is pasta a liquid?"
"You have to add water to cook it. That makes it a liquid"
"I see, may I speak to the Zulu please"
(ed. note : "Zulu" is the callsign for the BAA Security supervisor at Gatwick South)
Zulu is summoned. Thankfully, the duty Zulu knows me casually and we exchange New Year greetings.
"Whats the problem?"
"He's trying to take these liquids through"
"What liquids?"
(holding up package of pasta) "These"
"That's pasta"
"Yes"
Moment of puzzled silence.
"Thats ok, he can take it."
Monty Python couldn't have scripted it any better.
I had picked up some pasta at the M&S Simply Food to cook when I got home that evening and put it in my carryon.
Going through security, the bag gets flagged.
"What's this?"
"Pasta"
"Didn't you read the signs about liquids?"
"Yes, but this is pasta"
"Pasta is a liquid"
"Huh? How is pasta a liquid?"
"You have to add water to cook it. That makes it a liquid"
"I see, may I speak to the Zulu please"
(ed. note : "Zulu" is the callsign for the BAA Security supervisor at Gatwick South)
Zulu is summoned. Thankfully, the duty Zulu knows me casually and we exchange New Year greetings.
"Whats the problem?"
"He's trying to take these liquids through"
"What liquids?"
(holding up package of pasta) "These"
"That's pasta"
"Yes"
Moment of puzzled silence.
"Thats ok, he can take it."
Monty Python couldn't have scripted it any better.
Jan 18, 2009, 11:31 am
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sheesh, and here i was thinking that the brits were at least half on the ball when it came to security theatre.....
Jan 18, 2009, 11:44 am
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Nah, chances are it's an evil liberal paper and there could be an article about us in there spun to fit the libs.
Jan 18, 2009, 1:09 pm
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Jan 18, 2009, 1:51 pm
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Since you knew the supervisor, you should have offered him the box of pasta to club that moron over the head with.
What's next - we can't carry rice because it can be used to make congee?
What's next - we can't carry rice because it can be used to make congee?
Jan 18, 2009, 3:26 pm
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Great illustration of the fact lobotomees are hired throughout the world for airport security...
"You have to add water to cook it (pasta.) That makes it a liquid"
Unbe-<censored>-lievable!
"You have to add water to cook it (pasta.) That makes it a liquid"
Unbe-<censored>-lievable!
Jan 18, 2009, 3:30 pm
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You should have told him that the pasta was a fruit and its harvested from the spaghetti tree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_tree
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaghetti_tree