That is nuts.
In accordance with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), peanut butter is now classified as a “liquid”– which implies that you simply higher re-think bringing that jar of Skippy in your next vacation.
The TSA took to Twitter this week to make the announcement, explaining you can only bring it in your carry-on if it’s 3.4oz or less.
“You could not be nuts about it, but TSA considers your PB a liquid,” they wrote.
“In carry-on, it must be 3.4oz or less. Be certain all of your travel-sized liquids fit in a single quart-sized bag. #PeanutButter.”
Accompanied by the message was a photograph of a jar of peanut butter, and green text that read, “Peanut butter… a liquid has no definite shape and takes a shape dictated by its container.”
The Post reached out to TSA for comment.
Also included on the TSA’s list of carry-on no-no’s are creamy dips and spreads, hummus, and jam and jelly. All of those are classified as liquids that even have the identical requirements as peanut butter.
Nevertheless, it looks like Twitter users aren’t too pleased about this rule, and have began “spreading” the news to anyone who will listen.
“The share of water our bodies carry may as well be banned too,” one user wrote in response to the agency’s tweet.
One other agreed, typing, “Thanks for keeping us secure from peanut butter. Not all heroes wear capes.
“Sand and sugar would love a word about this definition of a liquid,” someone else joked.
Nevertheless, it looks just like the TSA might be onto something here.
Last December, a person from Rhode Island was arrested at JFK airport in recent York after he had tried to smuggle a dissassembled gun inside a jar of Jif peanut butter.
The TSA told The Post that officials had found parts of the .22 caliber semi-automatic gun wrapped in plastic and stuffed inside two jars of the peanut butter.
They found it in his checked baggage.
“The gun parts were artfully concealed in two smooth creamy jars of peanut butter, but there was definitely nothing smooth in regards to the way the person went about attempting to smuggle his gun,” John Essig, TSA’s Federal Security Director for JFK Airport, said in a press release on the time.
