Thursday teaser

mikedragon32

Here's one for you:

Travelling with only hand luggage and want to bring a jar of Marmite (yeah, I know).

Is it a liquid or a solid?

Googling hasn't really thrown much light on it.

Webster's Dictionary describes a liquid as:

readily flowing; fluid; specif., having its molecules moving freely with respect to each other so as to flow readily, unlike a solid, but because of cohesive forces not expanding indefinitely like a gas

One thing Marmite isn't is "readily flowing", however the definition of a solid is:

adjective, sol·id·er, sol·id·est.
1. having three dimensions (length, breadth, and thickness), as a geometrical body or figure.
2. of or pertaining to bodies or figures of three dimensions.
3. having the interior completely filled up, free from cavities, or not hollow: a solid piece of chocolate.
4. without openings or breaks: a solid wall.
5. firm, hard, or compact in substance: solid ground.

So it doesn't really fit that description either.

The question is, Marmite: suitable for carry-on or not.

Now before anyone starts to preach, this is just a bit of fun. A companion is bringing checked luggage and the marmite is going into those bags, I just wondered what the learned denizens of the Travel Forum might think.

schemingbohemia

There wasn't the option for delicious?! Would definitely think liquid and given it's colour could easily be used to hide something within so for that reason also would be deemed a security risk.

Daisy M

Freeze it before you go that way it will def be a solid!!

BuffyBot

Liquid, gel or paste..it's all the same to them. No > 100ml. Basically if it spreads or smears, it's no go :P

Savman

Jesus mike, random question of the year!

Can't stand the stuff so I'd be binning it....for, er, safety.

MOH

It's definitely a 'liquid', as far as the airline security regs go.

undo

The regulations apply to liquids and pastes. If not a liquid, it will be considered a paste...

mikedragon32

As I say, it's going into checked luggage anyway, but it did get me thinking!

hootietootie

We flew from Paris with Aer Lingus last week, I had a small jar of honey for my little girls cough and it had to go in the plastic bag for carry on

woodchuck

If it's going into checked luggage anyway it doesn't matter. The 100ml liquids/gels rule only applies to carry on. But if I was bringing it in carry on I'd consider it a 'gel'.