Airport security -- Can I bring these things on a plane?

[Muse]

Flying to San Diego from OAK in a week, Southwest.

I grow Kabocha pumpkins, have made a lot of soup with it, canned it in quart jars. Can I bring a few of these jars and also a couple of the pumpkins (~3 lb each) on the plane?

 

[Viper GTS]

Check them and you'll be fine.

Otherwise it's no on the canned food, yes on the pumpkins.

https://www.tsa.gov/travel/security-screening/prohibited-items

Viper GTS

 

[jaha2000]

The jars i would say zero chance. Only way you could do it is if they were frozen, which i assume would break the jars.
The pumpkins you could probably get away with. Why not just ship them ahead of time?

 

[Brainonska511]

Probably not in a carry-on. I would think your best bet would be carefully wrapped in checked luggage or ship them separately.

 

[Muse]

Well, I already will have one checked item, being my golf clubs. I'll probably just skip the pumpkin stuff. Man, I have so many jars of this stuff, it's great soup!

 

[GagHalfrunt]

If you need to get the jars to San Diego, ship them there. It will be easier than trying to fly with them.

 

[s0me0nesmind1]

Didn't TSA do an internal audit on their security and got 96% of prohibited items through or something?

Fuck it, just roll wit it brah. I've gotten my Double-Edge razors through multiple times because I hate cartridges.

 

[sdifox]

Just tell them you are an ATOTer and you'll be waved through.

 

[twinrider1]

Only if you want to re-can them in jars no bigger than 3oz. (I think that's their current standard).

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Didn't TSA do an internal audit on their security and got 96% of prohibited items through or something?

Fuck it, just roll wit it brah. I've gotten my Double-Edge razors through multiple times because I hate cartridges.

I've forgotten stuff in my jeans and have gotten through security with them.

For example I had two packets of matches that I got through carry on the other day.

 

[xgsound]

By all means ship them ahead. One of the main tenets of security is to be unpredictable so problem people can not prepare ahead.

Jim

 

[Jeff7]

I've forgotten stuff in my jeans and have gotten through security with them.

For example I had two packets of matches that I got through carry on the other day.

I left a receipt in my pocket once and they asked me to remove it after the x-ray thing.


At airports in smaller cities though, then there'd be a chance. They don't have the x-ray booths. The local airport here is kind of nice though. Getting through security from start to finish is somewhere around 5 minutes. From there, there's not much chance to get lost with only 7 small gates.

 

[AznAnarchy99]

I left a receipt in my pocket once and they asked me to remove it after the x-ray thing.


At airports in smaller cities though, then there'd be a chance. They don't have the x-ray booths. The local airport here is kind of nice though. Getting through security from start to finish is somewhere around 5 minutes. From there, there's not much chance to get lost with only 7 small gates.

I went through LAX, Boston Logan, and JFK. D:

A buddy of mine forgot some coke and molly in his jeans and passed through once too.

 

[IronWing]

Last time I flew I had a multi-head screwdriver in my carry-on. I coulda taken the engine apart.

 

[Rakehellion]

Well, I already will have one checked item, being my golf clubs. I'll probably just skip the pumpkin stuff. Man, I have so many jars of this stuff, it's great soup!

Mail it to yourself.

 

[Rakehellion]

I've forgotten stuff in my jeans and have gotten through security with them.

For example I had two packets of matches that I got through carry on the other day.

Matches are allowed on planes.

 

[feralkid]

Last time I flew I had a multi-head screwdriver in my carry-on. I coulda taken the engine apart.

You a (Iron) wing-walker?

 

[AznAnarchy99]

Matches are allowed on planes.

Really. Didn't know that. I thought they banned it after the shoe bomber.

 

[core2slow]

Dont put it in a jar, but put it in a heavy duty ziplock bag. It'll get approve that way.

 

[Rakehellion]

Really. Didn't know that. I thought they banned it after the shoe bomber.

Matches are allowed. Bombs are not allowed.

 

[Muse]

Dont put it in a jar, but put it in a heavy duty ziplock bag. It'll get approve that way.

Yeah, I can dig it. I was thinking the concern would be whether my soup was really some kind of explosive but I realized last night that the glass jars are an obvious problem. Glass is a potential serious weapon. I don't know if I can imagine putting my soup in plastic bags, though. Seems like a potential big mess! Such awesome soup, though. I made 22 quarts of it this last week and it's concentrated, so you add equal parts water like Campbells! It's equivalent to 11 gallons of soup! The pumpkins were starting to go bad, I couldn't just let them rot!

Mailing jars would have its own difficulties. There's the expense and the problem of packaging in such a way that the jars don't break. Recently I had electronics sent to me, it's amazing the extent of the damage that can occur. Maybe one day we'll drive down there like we did around 3 years ago. Then I could bring a bunch.