Stupid question on airport security and liquids...

I'm going to be working in Germany and being a regional, have to suffer a "low cost" airline (if you can call 160 quid return with no service and no luggage "low cost") flybe.

So it will be handluggage most of the time, which does cramp my style but doable.

However, sometimes I might take such things as spices and curry sauce across (though I suspect posting these might be cheaper nowadays). Does curry sauce count as a liquid?

Never quite sure on this sort of stuff. Did toothpaste count? What are the exact rules. Apart from funny looks from security... A tin of chicken soup?

Yes it does count as a liquid and so needs to be in a container of <100ml.

Toothpaste = a gel = a liquid so needs to be in a marked tube of <100ml. A 200ml tube half used should not get through as it is the size of the container that matters not the contents.

A dried packet of cuppa soup is OK but not a tin of normal sized soup.

And most of those things you've mentioned can easily be found in a local supermarket too.

And most of those things you've mentioned can easily be found in a local supermarket too.

Not the brand of curry sauce mix I find down my local indian shop.

And I still think that the greatest trick the devil did was to convince us he didn't exist, it's now getting people to use the term "low cost" airlines.

"low cost offpeak airlines" perhaps.

I think the postal option may be the best.

I'm waiting for the day when the 'security' personnel can differentiate between g and ml, and realise that toothpaste is, actually, denser than water and 135g can equate to 100 ml.

If it's all so dangerous, I'm continuously surprised that everything is placed in a central container; critical mass of Eau de cologne, marmalade and mouthwash, can only be a matter of time.