Peanut butter is my favorite. Almost everything foods containing carbohydrates and non-citrus fruits can be improved with a dollop of goober butter. Everyone knows it’s a sweet and creamy snack, and I used to love pouring a cold Jif Reduced Fat and slurping it down. As a kid, my favorite after-school snack was a cup of peanut butterhoney, banana and a sprinkle of brown sugar. I could practically bathe in that stuff, it’s so slippery and runny. At least, that’s what it is Transportation Protect Management want you to believe.
On August 23, aviation safety officials announced on Twitter “Peanut butter is liquid. We said what we said.”
“Liquids” have been banned on US planes for 18 years. Back in 2006, some idiot terrorists tried to bring down transatlantic flights departing from the UK with “liquid explosives” and since then, you can’t carry drinks through security. Just like how we have to take our damn shoes off at airport security because an idiot tried to blow up a flight from Paris to Miami with a bomb in his shoeTSA has used these voting age incidents to incite particularly ineffective security brand.
Peanut butter is not a liquid. It can be made into a liquid by adding unnecessary ingredients, and sometimes more organic peanut butters will leak their oils, but science would call the most basic peanut butter “bingham plastic” rather than a solid or a liquid. Bingham plastic is a material that “behaves as a rigid object at low stress but flows as a viscous liquid at high stress.”
Despite allowing jarred baby food, the hypocritical TSA will absolutely prevent you from bringing your favorite jar of peanut butter onto a plane, because they define peanut butter as a liquid under ASTM D4359-90. However, if you take the contents out of the jar and stuff your carry-on with hundreds of peanut butter sandwiches, they can’t stop you. You can only bring 3.4 ounces of “liquid” peanut butter in your carry-on. This is how terrorists win.
Never even think about bringing hummus on a plane.
