Getting through airport screening with my lunch

[soistalker]

I'm flying back home tomorrow morning. I just cooked my lunch for tomorrow as I hate airplane food. Are there any prohibitions against taking food through airport screening? 

The reason I am bringing this up is last month in Cambodia, they wouldn't let me bring my chicken sandwich, block of cheese, and rest of my lunch through screening. It was meat, they said. Good call, it was. I'm wondering if this is a problem in Thailand.

[dddave]

A couple of years ago, Suvarnabhumi security confiscated a 6" Subway sandwich I had in my shoulder bag.

"No fresh food!" the security agent said about 5 times.

Now I just buy sandwiches airside...at double the price.

 

BTW, a block of cheese will definitely get their attention as is shows on the scanner the same as possible explosives. 

Edited October 3, 2018 by dddave

[Beechboy]

What's a meal in the life?

 

 

 

 

[thaibeachlovers]

11 hours ago, dddave said:

A couple of years ago, Suvarnabhumi security confiscated a 6" Subway sandwich I had in my shoulder bag.

"No fresh food!" the security agent said about 5 times.

Now I just buy sandwiches airside...at double the price.

 

BTW, a block of cheese will definitely get their attention as is shows on the scanner the same as possible explosives. 

I've never had a problem taking food through security. I just put in a bag so they can't see it and the screener probably doesn't care about anything not a threat. However, I take wrapped food from Family Mart, so perhaps there is a problem with unwrapped food.

[lamyai3]

The trick is to wrap up your lunch in silver foil to keep it fresh and then just carry it in your trouser pocket. Chances are they won't even notice.

 

Edited October 4, 2018 by lamyai3

[sanemax]

4 minutes ago, lamyai3 said:

The trick is to wrap up your lunch in silver foil to keep it fresh and then just carry it in your trouser pocket. Chances are they won't even notice.

 

 

    And if the security ask you "Is that ticking" , say , "No, its turkey"

[dddave]

I was flying to LAX from Bangkok via Narita as a courier the day after the huge earthquake/tsunami in 2011.  Rumor had it that there was no food at Narita for the ongoing flights...maybe no meal service.  

I bought a ham and cheese sandwich airside in Bangkok to take with me just in case.

As it happened, the rumors were false, flights went smoothly, food served normally.

 

As a courier carrying commercial merchandise, I always had to go to line "B" at LAX Customs.

It was as I waited in Line "B" that the sniffer dog sat at my feet and wagged her tail.  I'd forgotten all about the damn sandwich in my carry-on.

Stern faced customs officers removed it from my bag with large, mechanical forceps and dumped it into an armored drum.  30 minutes of X-rays and analyses finally confirmed it was indeed a ham & cheese sandwich...with mayo.

I was given a stern, grim faced lecture as to how I was liable for a $1000++++ fine and incarceration.  This was serious shit.   

Finally, after more than an hour, they let me walk.

For four of five years after that, every time I had to go through line "B" at any US airport, I'd be questioned: "Have you ever had a problem with customs, sir?" and I if I didn't re-iterate my near criminal importation of that ham & cheese sandwich, they would point the notation in the computer and demand, yet again my explanation for my misdeeds.

It took more than five years for me to clear without interrogation.

[The manic]

Its probably illegal to take nuts on board.

[Nyezhov]

15 minutes ago, The manic said:

Its probably illegal to take nuts on board.

Im safe then my ex wife has them dangling from her rear view mirror.

[AhFarangJa]

12 hours ago, Nyezhov said:

Im safe then my ex wife has them dangling from her rear view mirror.

My first beer today, and half of it has gone all over the screen......Brilliant comeback, thank you....

[1337markus]

On 10/3/2018 at 6:22 PM, dddave said:

A couple of years ago, Suvarnabhumi security confiscated a 6" Subway sandwich I had in my shoulder bag.

"No fresh food!" the security agent said about 5 times.

Now I just buy sandwiches airside...at double the price.

 

BTW, a block of cheese will definitely get their attention as is shows on the scanner the same as possible explosives. 

Where is the sign saying no fresh food?

[Nyezhov]

47 minutes ago, AhFarangJa said:

My first beer today, and half of it has gone all over the screen......Brilliant comeback, thank you....

Was it a Chang? Do I owe ya 75 baht then?

[Thian]

I've brought my own food onboard several times.. no problem at all...just put it in the handluggage.

 

Only one time in singapore they wouldn't let me board with several packs of durian (in 10 plastic bags).

 

[AhFarangJa]

6 minutes ago, Nyezhov said:

Was it a Chang? Do I owe ya 75 baht then?

Naw, Lao Dark actually, but no worries thanks, managed to squeeze most out of the kitchen roll ...... 

[Nyezhov]

1 hour ago, AhFarangJa said:

Naw, Lao Dark actually, but no worries thanks, managed to squeeze most out of the kitchen roll ...... 

Thats a man after my own heart! Never waste a drop! No party fouls with you!

[Monkeyrobot]

Just take it, all you can loose is a sandwich. 

[Thian]

12 minutes ago, Monkeyrobot said:

Just take it, all you can loose is a sandwich. 

Would be nice if all passengers brought their own food so the airlines will upgrade theirs. 

 

Thai Airways gave me a breadroll from 6 cm and that's for dinner. I'm a tall strong man from 90 kg, i can't live on a mini sandwich during a long flight. 

 

It's always good to have spare food on a trip...you never know what happens...one day my plane had delay for 6 hours from Amsterdam, we got nothing and even had to sit on the floor inbetween the crying babies.

[Nyezhov]

1 minute ago, Thian said:

Would be nice if all passengers brought their own food so the airlines will upgrade theirs. 

 

Thai Airways gave me a breadroll from 6 cm and that's for dinner. I'm a tall strong man from 90 kg, i can't live on a mini sandwich during a long flight. 

 

It's always good to have spare food on a trip...you never know what happens...one day my plane had delay for 6 hours from Amsterdam, we got nothing and even had to sit on the floor inbetween the crying babies.

Geez up in the Kolyma it was 300g of bread and a cup of fishhead soup..a day. I really cant relate.... ????

[jgarbo]

On 10/4/2018 at 11:09 AM, sanemax said:

 

    And if the security ask you "Is that ticking" , say , "No, its turkey"

Unsatisfactory answer. Try :

"No, this is no-tick turkey, sir. Listen." 

[jgarbo]

2 hours ago, Monkeyrobot said:

Just take it, all you can loose is a sandwich. 

Right. Understand the game. The airlines make money from inflight F&B, so you're disturbing their business model. So, be polite, explain: "I have allergies" (clutch throat, poke out tongue) " afraid to cause airline trouble with medical problem." Works every time.

[whaleboneman]

You should be alright as long as you're not cooking soup.

[Lacessit]

Fill up on food before you go. Problem solved.

[Argus Tuft]

Travel often with food and never an issue - only ever got pulled up once for a tin of Baxter's Haggis in my carry on, which resulted in a carry on about what it was.
Pleaded and begged until the security supervisor came over - who was married to a Scot.  Bless her (I wasn't parting with that tin)

[Ulic]

It should not be an issue legally to bring food through airport screening but restaurants may not be happy paying high lease rates and then travelers not buying crap food at inflated prices. That said you will not be able to take your lunch into another country through customs. That may be where screeners are confused. Your food would have to be consumed by the time you land in a foreign country.

[jimn]

On 10/3/2018 at 6:22 PM, dddave said:

A couple of years ago, Suvarnabhumi security confiscated a 6" Subway sandwich I had in my shoulder bag.

"No fresh food!" the security agent said about 5 times.

Now I just buy sandwiches airside...at double the price.

 

BTW, a block of cheese will definitely get their attention as is shows on the scanner the same as possible explosives. 

Where did you get that nonsence about cheese. I just brought back 3 kilos of it. I didnt get pulled for bringing in a 3 kilo worth of explosives

[Argus Tuft]

3 minutes ago, jimn said:

Where did you get that nonsence about cheese. I just brought back 3 kilos of it. I didnt get pulled for bringing in a 3 kilo worth of explosives

Agree with this - if this is the case with cheese, then I've brought enough in enough "explosives" to blow up the moon

 

Total nonsense!

[dddave]

3 hours ago, Argus Tuft said:

Agree with this - if this is the case with cheese, then I've brought enough in enough "explosives" to blow up the moon

 

Total nonsense!

Calm down.  I never said they'd confiscate cheese, just that they do frequently want to visually check it out, as when I brought half a wheel of Gouda from Holland.

[Thian]

21 hours ago, Ulic said:

It should not be an issue legally to bring food through airport screening but restaurants may not be happy paying high lease rates and then travelers not buying crap food at inflated prices. That said you will not be able to take your lunch into another country through customs. That may be where screeners are confused. Your food would have to be consumed by the time you land in a foreign country.

I brought sandwiches into Holland and no problem at all at the customs...how can an automated machine open my handluggage?

[roo860]

I put my 12inch Subway down the front of my trousers, the female security lady was very impressed with my 'packed lunch.'

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[jrjrjr]

Hide it in the front of your pants. I was even able once to hide a bottle of wine that they didn't find. Maybe the girl in charge was just shocked by the size of my willy ????