Harmless "weapons" made of food

Kyle Bean has made a series of food sculptures in the shape of various weapons, improvised and traditional. I wonder if pieces of toast cut to look like brass knuckles would make it through a TSA checkpoint?

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- marukosu
  
  Homer adds: Mmmm… explodilicious!
- AlexG55
  
  You may have noticed this and just be quoting the Simpsons anyway, but the bomb in the photo isn’t hot-dogs, it’s Mini-Milks (small ice-creams on sticks, in this case strawberry flavoured).
Antinous / Moderator

Toast harmless???
- belovedsanspoof
  
  A salt weapons?
nixiebunny

From my experience, a peanut butter sandwich crust held in the form of a pistol wouldn’t make it through the TSA screening.
- nixiebunny
  
  …but they’ll happily let you bring enough LiPo batteries on board to burn a hole through the fuselage.
- Jorpho
  
  Didn’t the TSA once object to someone wearing a shirt with a picture of a gun on it?
  - ranhalt
    
    The TSA objected to someone wearing a shirt that said “We will not be silent” in Arabic.
Smash Martian

Quite right too. The pilot or one of the air-crew might have a nut allergy. In the slightly sticky hands of an enemy of freedom, a loaded PB&J could have devastating consequences…
professor

The TSA might not be concerned, but I think Powdered Toast Man will probably get a bit upset!
Hubris Sonic

I could kill a man with a piece of toast.
Hubris Sonic

no, this is great. Now I can have my PTSD flare up WHILE I am eating….
awjt

I want an E. coli modeled in plastique.
beemoh

Are we to assume that isn’t a real knife?
Nash Rambler

*narrows eyes, puts on tough-guy face* I eat toast knuckles for breakfast.
rabidpotatochip

Those toast knuckles are awesome. “Kidney-punch your hunger, with toast!” Yeah, I’d use that slogan.
edinblack

If there’s a weaponized taco, you could use pepper spray on it.
pjcamp

Pepto Bismol popsicles? WTF are those?