This story is at least from a friend of a friend, maybe more steps. It sounds too neat, but could it possibly be done?
Supposedly a woman got on a commercial plane leaving NYC for Spain. She had a carryon, a canvas tote, that included a snack she had bought from a food establishment inside the airport. The person who told me said it was something on the level of a Burger King or McD.
The food item? A hot fudge sundae!
The woman apparently was super nervous of flying, took years to get her courage together, and the tipping point was her decision to bring the sundae along. Supposedly, if she was going to risk death, she insisted that the last thing she’d ever eat must be a hot fudge sundae!
So, supposedly she got one at the airport, and had her tote other wise stuffed with full water bottles she’d frozen solid. So a couple of hours later, somewhere over the Atlantic, she pulled out her sundae and chowed down.
Apparently the only problem was some young child nearby saw what she was eating and started yelling and crying and demanding she wanted ice cream, too. (Tough, kiddo, it’s bring your own snack day!)
But…would someone be allowed to bring aboard multiple bottles of water, even if it was frozen? I don’t think there would be a problem with the ice cream itself, outside of the melting problem?
The frozen water would keep the ice cream at just about 32 degrees (0 Celsius). A freezer usually is set at about 0 degrees (about -18 C) so the ice cream would be fairly slushy and the hot fudge sauce would not be hot at all.
How about dry ice? It’s just CO2 and the whole plane is full of people breathing it out constantly.
As for the hot fudge. Bring it separately, in a commercially sealed bottle? And ask a stewardess to nuke it for you a while? I know they’ll help heat up baby bottles.
I am stuck on where one would get frozen water bottles in the terminal. Or is it assumed she brought them thru the security check? Without them melting some?
Unfortunately, that also gets you crappy water; though at least it’s crappy water you didn’t have to pay extra for.
If I ever fly again, I might try the ice technique – though by the time I spent an hour or two getting to the airport and then the currently required couple of hours hanging around the airport, even if I bring a cooler bag how much of it will still be ice? Will they let me just pour off any excess thawed bit?
How recently was it supposed to have occurred? What you could bring on used to be different & more bountiful. Many years ago I was on a flight, in coach, & the woman next to me reached into her bag & pulled out a box of crackers, then reached in again & pulled out a deli container from a locally famous cheese shop with their own version of Boursin & a plastic/disposable butter knife like you’d get with take out to have some wonderful cheese & crackers (she shared) & probably out eat those in the front rows. I’ve thought about doing such from time to time but don’t believe either the soft cheese nor the plastic butter knife is allowed thru security anymore.
On my last trip, from the hotel lobby I bought a little ice cream, to have later in the day. I kept it in the ice chest all day. When I got to the next stop, I had a nice little container of milk.
My gist was, if you do not trust that a bottle of water is not really a fake bottle of water, why would you believe that what looks like ice is real ice?