Even fruitcake could slow you down at the Airport..BANG

[rsmith6621]

SEATTLE (AP) - Lines started forming early today at Sea-Tac Airport for its busiest day of the year.

The airport expects 120,000 travelers to pass through the gates -- coming and going -- on their way to Thanksgiving.

The Transportation Security Administration has extra staff to screen departing passengers and lines were moving steadily Thursday morning.

Airport spokesman Bob Parker Bob Parker says most people have gotten the word about limiting carry-on liquids to three-ounce containers in a one-quart bag. Security screeners also say no fruit cakes. The cakes are dense and the machines can mistake them for explosives.

http://www.komotv.com/news/4719541.html


Im so tired of FRUITCAKE being picked on.....totally politically incorrect...

[TAPat]

1. Has Sea-Tac moved to some new time zone?

Last I checked Thursday morning is tomorrow. :)

[TahitiNut]

8. Obituary standards ... 'news' stories written in advance.

I've been seeing this a lot in recent years right around the holidays.

[NEDem]

2. Yeah, the rights of the fruitcake are being trampled upon

Where's the outrage on behalf of the fruitcakes?

[TahitiNut]

11. On behalf of my fellow nuts and our allies, the fruits, I'm outraged.

We should assemble the Jimmy Buffett Fruitcake Brigade and pelt SeaTac with edibles. :silly:

[BlueJazz]

3. What they REALLY mean is This >>

"The cakes are dense and the machines can mistake them for Food".

:rofl:

Sorry..I can't stand the Damn things..

[conscious evolution]

4. Fruitcake is a weapon of ass destuction

:hide:

[cornermouse]

5. If you're vicious enough to carry a fruitcake, you deserve it

O8)

[AlCzervik]

6. huzzah!

[ArbustoBuster]

9. I like fruitcake.

It's an explosion of flavor. :evilgrin:

[TahitiNut]

7. Cherries, pineapple, unbleached flour, raisins, walnuts, whole eggs, pecans, dates, sugar, ...

"Cherries, pineapple, unbleached flour, raisins, walnuts, whole eggs, pecans, dates, sugar, brandy, wine, papaya, butter, lemon and orange peel, all-vegetable shortening, honey, pineapple juice, non-fat dry milk, water, fine flavorings and spices, salt, baking powder, calcium propionate and sulfur dioxide added as a preservative."

All my favorite things. :dunce:

[ArbustoBuster]

10. Sulfur dioxide just like mom used to add.

The calcium propionate is what makes it fancy.

[TahitiNut]

12. Yeah ... I miss the bacillus mesentericus. Yum!

:eyes:

[ArbustoBuster]

14. Deadly microbes add flavor.

:D

[TahitiNut]

16. Not just fruitcake .. an adventure!

:rofl:

[jmowreader]

13. I would have DEFINITELY kept my great-grandma's off a plane

Granny Pucci made this rather sublime fruitcake. The thing had so much fruit in it you had a hard time finding the cake, and its five-year rest in Havana Club rum gave it the most unbelievable bouquet of flavor.

Unfortunately, the cake also had a density only slightly higher than that of uranium making it fully capable of taking out a cockpit door if thrown hard enough, and there was so much alcohol in it you could have started an airplane with just the fumes.

Oh, and Granny Pucci only got thrown in jail twice for making these during Prohibition. I don't think they were trying hard enough. (Family lore has it that Granny Pucci got thrown in jail thirty times during Prohibition.)

If this was a retail product, it would be labeled with a Statement of Hazards to Humans and Other Domesticated Livestock right between the Nutrition Facts and the Statement of Ingredients.

[Deja Q]

15. No fruit cakes? Damn, so much for my little flight in January...

:(