Since I’ve been doing really well on the ‘lower your cholesterol’ kick that we’ve been making to our lifestyle since my health screening (or as most people would just call it, a diet), I figured that I would bring a healthy breakfast with me to the airport so I could eat something before I boarded the plane this morning.

My breakfast, which consisted of a a small cottage cheese and an even smaller yogurt, is now sitting in a huge pile of confiscated goods thanks to SeaTac’s crack security team.

Apparently both of these items are considered ‘liquids’ and with new security restrictions in place, these substances are banned on flights in the US. While I jokingly told the security person that even though cottage cheese did contain some liquid (what is that stuff?), it was really mostly solid and that yogurt definitely wasn’t a liquid, she wasn’t buying it. And while she commented that containers with ‘cream’ were allowed that were under 3.5oz, I really think the real reason she took them was that she was just hungry. I mean, it was just after 6am, a perfect time for breakfast.

I wonder what they do with the huge container of confiscated goods, filled with water bottles, yogurt, cottage cheese and other dangerous food items. Do they donate them? Do they destroy them? Who knows.

At least they let me keep the spoon.