TSA bans food that can be ‘poured, spread or sprayed’

By June Watanabe

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Oct 01, 2012

~~Question: Several weeks ago, in a letter to the Hawaii Tribune-Herald (<a href="http://is.gd/ZyWGsH" style="color: #0000FF;">is.gd/ZyWGsH</a>), a woman related how TSA folks told her she could not carry Zippy’s chili on her flight back from Oahu because it was considered a liquid. She had done it before without incident. My sister once had to give up surimi (fish paste) at Hilo Airport. How are we to know what food we can and cannot carry on the airlines? It’s more important now that we are all trying to avoid paying for checked-in boxes.
Answer: It’s difficult to assess through email the account of the incident about chili from Zippy’s or elsewhere, Nico Melendez, spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration’s Pacific Region, told us in an email.
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Question: Several weeks ago, in a letter to the Hawaii Tribune-Herald (is.gd/ZyWGsH), a woman related how TSA folks told her she could not carry Zippy’s chili on her flight back from Oahu because it was considered a liquid. She had done it before without incident. My sister once had to give up surimi (fish paste) at Hilo Airport. How are we to know what food we can and cannot carry on the airlines? It’s more important now that we are all trying to avoid paying for checked-in boxes.

Answer: It’s difficult to assess through email the account of the incident about chili from Zippy’s or elsewhere, Nico Melendez, spokesman for the Transportation Security Administration’s Pacific Region, told us in an email. Login for more...