<p>I am taking a flight tomorrow morning to the west coast. My sister loves my homemade fruit pies and I have 2 frozen ones I would like to take her. I have figured out how to package them up and seal them to try and keep them pretty frozen. I want to carry them on the plane. Is security going to give me a hard time about this? Should I just forget the whole thing? Any ideas oh wise ones?</p>
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<p>shennie,
Do you have some sort of carry on luggage you are taking? If so, I would carefully pack the pies in the carry on, making sure they wouldn’t move around. They will x-ray the luggage after you put it on the conveyor belt and I can’t imagine that the pies would show up as anything dangerous. Once the pies have made it through the security screening, I’ll bet you could take them out of the carry on, and just carry them on! Good luck!</p>
<p>my suggestion is to buy some stupid thing at one of the restaurants at the airport and put the pies in the new bag, if you want…I mean we are forced to bring food on the plane to eat and I bring in mine from trader joes…salads, with dressing, etc</p>
<p>but heaven forbid my D brings in a bottle of water</p>
<p>^^You can now bring all the water you want in your carry-on provided that you get it from one of the shops in the secure part of the airport. Water brought in from outside will need to be discarded before passing through security.</p>
<p>I looked at a couple of websites and opinions differ on what the TSA will allow.</p>
<p>See:
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<p>The first site quotes a TSA official saying pies would not be allowed because of the gel like filling and the second site claims that someone was able to carry a cheesecake through.</p>
<p>Common to each site seems to be that whatever the food, it needs to be wraped in wax paper or plastic wrap. You need to tell the TSA agent that you have food in your carry-on. </p>
<p>It seems that it’s entirely up to the agent.</p>
<p>You may want to have a friend or relative come with you to the airport to take the pies home just in case the TSA decides that you’re a “security threat”. </p>
<p>I’ll feel safer tomorrow knowing you’ll be flying from Wisconsin to the West Coast rather than over Michigan. Another damn exploding pie…</p>
<p>I travel all of the time and have seen enough to know you can’t tell ahead of time. I take absolutely nothing that can be questioned, wear no metal whatsoever, put anything questionable in that darn little bag and have nothing that can be questioned in my carry ons, etc. To be safe, put it in checked luggage which does not have the restrictions or make fresh ones when you get there.</p>
<p>Thanks for your comments. I have decided to leave the pie at home. Sigh… Our flight from Madison to Milwaukee was cancelled and they are busing us to Milwaukee to get our connection to Seattle. So I won’t have anyone to take the pie if they won’t let it through. Guess my sister will just have to come and visit me here :)</p>
<p>I agree with SIngersmom. I can go through multiple airports with some items, only to have them taken away from me and confiscated at others. It does seem to be entirely up to the TSA agent at the time. To be safe, take absolutely nothing even slightly questionable. </p>
<p>I am sorry though Shennie that your flight was cancelled.</p>
<p>I didn’t think they’d let my daughter on the plane with a filled king cake. (It had a thick layer of strawberry glaze inside). Not only did they let her, when it passed through the X-ray machine, they called her over so she could see where the baby was. I wouldn’t count on doing that any place else though.</p>
<p>You could pack them in a box with frozen gel packs made for shipping and FedEx them for earliest overnight delivery. The gel packs stay frozen 24 hours, and the FedEx delivery is usually about 18 hours. But you could probably buy ten pies for what it would cost.</p>
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<p>Shennie…sorry, not sounding so great. Can you bake one when you get there? May be too much trouble to do there. </p>
<p>I have mailed a homemade cake but not a pie.</p>
<p>Who knows…a pie could look dangerous. I don’t know how, but I think anything can look dangerous. </p>
<p>In 2004 I was flying to Washington DC for a couple weeks and had a pack of 50 batteries in my carry-on (oh, the days of CD players w/ batteries and not I-Pods hahaha), it was one of those packages that’s like 8 inches long and the batteries are stacked on top of each other. The bag went through the machine and the light started flashing and the security guy was like “Do you…have bullets in your bag?” They thought it was a string of bullets like the military wears around their chest. </p>
<p>Better safe than sorry though.</p>
<p>Put them in the belly of the plane -i.e. check them -they should make it and no questions asked.
(this from a former airline employee)</p>
<p>Packing a pie: I mailed an apple pie for “Pi Day” to my son. CC’rs gave me lots of great suggestions on how to pack it. I froze it. Wrapped it in saran wrap. put a second pie tin on top to further protect it. Put it all in a box with packing peanuts. Sent it via overnight delivery. It arrived safetly. But indeed, I don’t know if I’d do it again - shipping cost were ridiculous. But you could probably pack it the way I did and have it put in the belly of the plane like brooklymom suggested.</p>
<p>pack it and check them. i always wondered what was in those boxes that people would pick up at baggage claim…until I wanted to take salsa, queso, and tortilla chips to my son. packed 'em, boxed 'em, taped up a handle and all was good! i wouldn’t want to take the odds that they might not let them through–remember the fbi or secret service woman and the trouble she had with a “tippy” cup?</p>
<p>if your sister loves your pies send them fed ex in freeze box. Nothing like getting homemade!</p>
<p>Or you could have her get the ingredients and bake them with her when you get there, then she would have the recipe :D</p>
<p>If you’re wearing a clown costume & a big red nose, I could see why security agents would consider the pie a weapon. But otherwise, if it’s being x-rayed, it should go through. The frustrating part is all the fluctuating standards. Sometimes the agents are freaking out over an underwire bra. Other times they seem absolutely bored & let you pass through with hardly a glance. One year my D had to take out her violin & play it for the x-ray screeners. I was thinking how annoyed anyone behind us & in a time crunch must have felt.</p>
<p>This thread makes me sad. I have stopped carrying anything at all on to a plane, except my purse, and then I still worry that they’ll find contraband (lip balm, hand sanitizer, all those nefarious items!).</p>
<p>Last year as we headed to Ds school across the country, her carry on (all art supplies) was gone through with a fine toothed comb. They found (new, still factory sealed) 12 tubes of water colors (1.5 oz each). Uhm uh, uh. Can’t carry those on girly. She was told she could go back and check them in, but the airport security was so backed up that it had taken us nearly 40 minutes to get to that point, there was no time to go back. She tried (without arguing) to show officer security that they were factory sealed, but he was having no part of it. She tried again (not arguing) to tell him that these were her life-blood, he was having no part of it. It was not even 6 am, she was emotionally and physically exhausted, big tears quietly streamed down her face as he removed them from the case and tossed them into a huge trash bin (leaving the empty wooden case) . It was heartbreaking. </p>
<p>I can’t stand this TSA reform.</p>