Peanut Butter-gate

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Food-stamp diet

One of Rep. Tim Ryan’s (D-Ohio) final hurdles in the Food Stamp Challenge has been dubbed “Peanut Butter-gate” by his office.

Last Friday, when the Buckeye State lawmaker was running late to the Manchester, N.H., airport after giving a commencement speech at his former law school, he forgot to remove his jars of peanut butter and jelly from his luggage.

Transportation and Safety Administration officials quickly confiscated the goods and let him pass. Only problem was that those provisions were almost all of Ryan’s food for the next few days.

By the end of Monday, Ryan and Reps. James McGovern (D-Mass.), Jo Ann Emerson (R-Mo.) and Jan Schakowsky (D-Ill.) had completed a week of eating only $21 worth of food each — the average amount of benefits a food-stamp beneficiary uses.

Their mission was part of the Food Stamp Challenge.


http://thehill.com/cover-stories/food-stamp-diet-2007-05-23.html

[L. Coyote]

1. One more GATE for the endless list. Another 100 here. Please add those missed

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x899312

[KT2000]

2. TSA workers

must have been hungry or something.
Confiscating peanut butter and jelly?

[gollygee]

3. If they're spreadable, they're considered liquids

You even have to have your Chapstick in your little baggie of liquids and that's less liquidy than PB or J.

[aquart]

5. Why are we still being penalized for a publicity stunt?

Carrying liquid explosives has never been proven viable. NEVER. Can we stop being jackasses about this?

[Retrograde]

6. for the same reason TSA runs shoes through metal detectors

even though the agency itself admitted that there was no way that would detect explosives, which is what they're supposedly worried about.

It's simple logic:

Something must be done.
This is something.
Therefore, we must do it.

[gollygee]

7. Especially the amount of liquids most people would carry on them

a 12-oz bottle? Come on.

[NightWatcher]

4. what terrorist can use pb&j as a weapon?

I'm snacking on some primo Jiff right now myself. Ummm pnut butter and water for a late afternoon snack.

[PATRICK]

8. Dennis the Menace

n/t