Yesterday at San Jose Airport flying out on Thanksgiving Day, While we were in the line for the x-ray/metal detector machines at the airport, the TSA employees were standing beside the line with a table and a trashcan for inspecting liquids in their "war on moisture" campaign.
"Mascara, cosmetics, toothpaste, and liquids cannot pass this point." One of the TSA employees called out.
"No food either -- pumpkin pie, cherry pie, apple pie, cranberry sauce, gravy, pecan pie"
"We'll gladly take them", the other one cheerfully called out, before breaking into laughter.
The threat level yesterday, for which they have a nice sign now next to the x-ray machine, was orange. I haven't decided yet if the TSA employees were just being jovial, or if they were just doing their jobs.
Wouldn't you feel safer if you knew there weren't any pies on the plane?
A pie bomb would be a serious hassle to construct. You'd need two pies, one full of ketones (easy enough to do) and one full of peroxides (I don't think that would bake right). Then, of course, the concentrated sulfuric aid to start the reaction once you'd squished your binary pie bomb together.
Silly stuff.
I agree, a pie bomb on a Thanksgiving flight sounds like a bad Tom Clancy plot element.
Of course, when we were travelling back from Taiwan right after the airport closure at Heathrow they made us x-ray the bread.