TSA-compliant cupcakes: "I am not a gel"

Inspired by Rebecca Hains' harrowing tale of cupcake confiscation by the Las Vegas TSA, Providence, RI's Silver Spoon Bakery is selling "TSA-compliant cupcakes." These have exactly three ounces of frosting, and come in a ziplock baggie with a boarding card and a little Richard Nixon badge bearing the legend, "I am not a gel."

Bakery's TSA Compliant Cupcake is latest volley in Cupcakegate (via Digg)

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http://burntheflag.ca Jardine

Those signs look like they’re held on by toothpicks. You could kill someone with one of those!
morcheeba

The 3oz rule (actually 100ml or 3.4 oz, but the TSA is lazy about labeling) applies to a container’s labeled size, not actual content size. So, if your bottle is 5 oz but marked 3 oz, you’re good to go. If you don’t have a container, then they can’t measure how much you have and I think they still wouldn’t let it pass. This container size also explains why I can’t bring a nearly-empty 10 oz bottle of saline, and instead must buy a smaller bottle (unless I go under the medical exemption)
Guest

They’re still going to take it and eat it.
- Antinous / Moderator
  
  That’s why we need to start trying to board with cupcakes full of laxatives. That’ll learn ‘em to steal other kids’ lunches.
SomeGuyNamedMark

If cupcakes are outlawed only outlaws will have cupcakes.
legotech

Except now the TSA will arrest you for having a fake boarding pass
http://halfbakedmaker.org Robert Baruch

Oh, I thought these were TSA complaint cupcakes. Like, you’d send one to the TSA each time you flew.
benher

T.S.A. cupcakes? That’s Simply Amazing! (someone please get it!)
robdobbs

Silver Poon Bakery?

Sweet.