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[–] [email protected] 24 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Because security is more concerned with finding weapons and drugs. Customs/Borders Enforcement is the group tasked with finding prohibited plants and animals, and they don’t usually start looking for those things until you get to the destination country.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I had a block of cheese one time, they went crazy about it. X-rayed it a bunch. They really didn't like that cheese.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (1 children)

That was probably because of the density of the cheese. I had the same thing happen to me with a bag of gnocchi once. They really thought it was something illicit because they had a big armed security guy on either side of me while they had me open it, and they looked really disappointed to find out what it really was.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

Most anticlimatic resolution lol

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

I got stopped with a Panettone once. Thankfully this was in EWR so the Italian-American gate agent understood why I'd be smuggling one to the west coast.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

Snuggling or smuggling?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

was it brunost by any chance?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

It was a 5lb block of cheddar from UW Provisions, in Madison Wisconsin. Which, in their defense, is a very large block of cheese.