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Consumerist.com editor Ben Popken braved the airport crowds yesterday, witnessing this exchange between a dessert-toting passenger and an agent of the last line of our great nation’s defense:

A man waiting in line asked if it was okay to bring his pie on board.
“That ain’t a liquid,” said the TSA employee.
“Oh, good,” said the man.
We refrained from asking aloud whether cherry pie filling was considered a gel.
“Unless it’s sweet potato,” she said.
“It is,” he said.
“Then I’m gonna have to confiscate it!” said the TSA employee, to general laughter.

I’m not sure what it says about me, the TSA, or the times we live in, but I had to do a double-take, thinking to myself: “This TSA agent didn’t REALLY confiscate a pie because it was a semi-gelatinous sweet potato pie, did they?…” After all, sandwich condiments were once considered threats, so why not pie fillings? (Thankfully, the agent was kidding…)

So rest assured, the War on Liquids has not devolved into a War on Dessert. Carry on.

Enjoy your Thanksgiving gluttony.

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