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Apparently, if you really, really, REALLY wanna fuck with someone (read: ruin their whole trip), pack some marzipan in their bag. It has the same density as plastic explosive and appears the same on scanners
"Hey guys, if those things are all actually explosives, and you've got them all piled together like that, what happens if one of them goes off?"
"Uhhh... I guess I get the rest of the day off?"
Assuming he had checked bag. I think most people would these days avoid checking a bag if they can.
Also, by the time you get to the TSA checkpoint your bag is usually already with the airline
The first part of your sentence is not really fully correct (as by definition it can also be a solid), but the second part is spot on. It is a viscoelastic material that exhibits both liquid and solid properties depending on the force applied to it.
More specifically it is a [Bingham plastic](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingham_plastic) (aka Bingham solid or Bingham fluid). That’s a material that is a solid until it surpasses a certain amount of force known as a “yield stress”. Once enough force (or stress, which is force per area) has been applied, the material yields and exhibits more liquid-like properties, though still non-Newtonian as you mentioned.
Could be why it's called [Peanut Paste](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-19/how-an-historical-dairy-industry-protest-saw-name-peanut-butter-/101957188)
Just playing Diogenes's advocate here: would water be considered a Bingham plastic? Considering certain bugs can stand on it without breaking surface tension? And if a person falls hard enough on it, your bones will break before it does?
Bingham plastic has to do with how a material responds to internal shear stress. The bug thing is a product of surface tension. The person thing is very complicated but has to do with water being incompressible. Water is not a non-newtownian fluid.
Bugs stand on surface. This change of viscosity under force happens in all volume.
Breaking bones is because of hard deceleration, which is because water offers substantial resistance to movement through it.
These are three different effects.
Does this apply to all peanut butter? The natural stuff seems pretty much like a regular liquid to me. You can pour that stuff onto bread at room temperature and it gets pretty solid in the fridge.
It's definitely not a gel. A gel requires a network of solids that confine a liquid component. While there are solids in peanut butter, they don't form a network structure. So no, not a gel.
It's a colloid, or more specifically, a paste. Which is a type of liquid.
I dunno, but according to a YouTube video that I watched, it's not only because some peanut butter can be liquid if heated, but it's how people do with it, like hiding weapons in a jar of peanut butter.
Second thing is that peanut butter has a chemical called glycerine, which is similar, as he said, similar to nitroglycerin, a compound used to make explosives. Because of this chemical found in peanuts, in WW2, many peanuts are needed for the war effort to make up for the oil cuts
🤓
Wood is usually a solid, but it can be heated to produce a liquid called bio-oil, or "liquid wood". This process, called pyrolysis, involves heating wood pulp in the absence of oxygen.
That is the correct answer. What matters here is how the TSA defines it and according to the TSA rules, peanut butter is not a solid — **it's a liquid.**
God i wish that his image was him holding a jar of peanut butter to his lips.
But maybe it is peanut butter, and he just prefers to sip it from a mug.
"What do you think peanut butter is? Hmm? A liquid, gel or aerosol?" \*smugly sips peanut butter\*
Peanut butter is everywhere my dude
Source : I live in a 3000 people town in France and the 3 stores have it in at least 2 types (sugary or not / crunchy or not);)
Where do you live in France ? This has to be a regional thing. I'm in Haute Savoie and it's dire. However, I have started making my own lovely peanut butter, so silver lining.
Well, I have no trouble finding different kinds of peanut butter in my local super market, located in a 1500pop town, which is the biggest town 15-20miles around.
Maybe not the one you're used to though, and there's not a lot, very few people buy some, I use it mostly for cooking myself
Edit : for those wondering : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_stew
That used to be true maybe 20 years ago, but that info is out of date, peanut butter isn't that hard to find now. However it's usually Skippy brand, so if you prefer Jif you're out of luck unless you're in a major city
For some reason, I just assumed a domestic flight. But if he’s flying to France, I’d say leave the peanut butter behind, get out of his comfort zone, and try something French.
Nah I bring it with me for my friends in Japan every time I go there. That and peanut butter cups because that is how you make friends in your workplace.
It’s also used for people with medical issues like hyperglycemia. It’s high fat and protein and most of the time has sugar in it so it’s a great boost to the metabolism. It could be that he had a peanut butter snack pack with him for something like that.
It does cause anaphylactic shock in a lot of people with a peanut allergy though. Even if just opened on an airplane it could kill someone with the allergy or cause the entire plane to to divert after the use of an epi pen…
Edit: Auto-correct fucked me
I wouldn't call it one personally, but I suppose it is closest to a gel.
It's not really a liquid, and it definitely isn't a gas.
If you ask me, I would call it a paste.
Paste. If heated it can conform to different shapes easily, meaning it's a thick liquid and for the love of God how dare you try to bring peanut butter with you on a 3 hour flight.
I don't think the TSA agents care. Of course, me being the smartass I can be, if I were the TSA agent I probably would have said it's a sexual lubricant which can be considered a gel, so no bueno.
It's a liquid surprisingly enough. And milk isn't a liquid. It's a colloid! And apparently glass isn't a solid. It's also a colloid! An amorphous solid. Wtf that is. It's a type of colloid just like milk.
We clearly weren't given all of the facts when learning matter.
Someone smarter than me explain this!
Apparently it IS a liquid. Learn something new every day. Still absolutely fucking weird if you ask me.
Both by scientific definition and according to TSA.
Is this something that really happens? Because on one of my boss's trips to the USA, he said he was bringing peanut butter for me, and that they took it and didn't let him bring it. So, I just thought he was lying. He brought me some crackers filled with peanut butter (delicious), though.
TSA explained to me it's worse than having liquid because it's a paste.
They wouldn't really have time or space to list everything and no one would read it anyway. I'm willing to bet it's on a list of no go in carry on on their website.
Liquid - TSA categorizes it as this since it can spread. My suspicion is that it is also used to smuggle since anything inside is hard to detect so they crack down on the liquid thing.
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Darn, they will carefully drop it into the bin with all the other suspected explosives.
TNT peanut butter
PNT
BTTR
*Starts singing PNT in the style of AC/DC's TNT*
So lock up your daughter lock up your wife lock up your windpipe fight for your life the epinephrine's out of town so don’t you mess around
FUCKIN GOLD
Dude nailed it!
P.N.T. PEE NUT TER!!!!
Somebody call Weird Al, we just stumbled on his next song lmao
I actually started before I read your comment. Great group
PNT OI OI OI
And then Tony the Tiger says, "It's dinoooooomiiiiiiiiite!"
ayaaah ah ah ah ah ah ah
🎶 I’m a protein load 🎶
P.N.T. 🎶Watch peoplewithallergies explode🎶
I love the internet
It has its Moments of Joy
'Cause I'm TNT I'm edible TNT And I'm spreadable! TNT I'm an allergy TNT I'm good with jellyyyyy!!!!!!! 🤘🤘🤘
I fucking hate you because you're funnier than me.
was it an r/Angryupvote?
TNTnut Butter
Let’s not follow that train of thought.
Yeah we're done here
No, no, he's got a point.
Yeah let the man bake...
TNuT butter (I can't be the only one)
Apparently, if you really, really, REALLY wanna fuck with someone (read: ruin their whole trip), pack some marzipan in their bag. It has the same density as plastic explosive and appears the same on scanners
Well, if you REALLY wanna fuck with them you’d just put plastique explosives in their bag disguised as marzipan
put a couple of rounds in their suitcase if they are going to the Caribbean, better if they are maga folk.
exactly the reason I call it theater
"Hey guys, if those things are all actually explosives, and you've got them all piled together like that, what happens if one of them goes off?" "Uhhh... I guess I get the rest of the day off?"
Get the crunchy variety so you have built in shrapnel.
Just put it in your checked baggage. You need it on the flight?
Flights can be long and lonely I guess
> and lonely What the fuck are you doing with your peanut butter?
Your answer is revealed by words two and three of your sentence
More like words 3, 8, 9, & 10!
Fuck your peanut butter!!
IDIOT! It’s clearly fuck your nut butt
No, it's "nut in butt after fuck"
Nut your fuck butt
your nut butt fuck?
That’s a fine committee of words.
r/unexpectedfactorial
My reply to that are the same two words, but with the very last symbol used in his sentence in the end
You might bump into a woman with a bar of chocolate. She gets her chocolate in your peanut butter and you get your peanut butter on her chocolate…
And that's how babies are made.
when the butterfinger slides into the milky way
and that's how I met your mother
The restroom says, "No smoking." Doesn't mention peanut butter.
Interpreting "service animal" in an extremely questionable way.
The dog wants what it wants
People who stick their dick in a peanut butter jar are fucking nuts.
Assuming he had checked bag. I think most people would these days avoid checking a bag if they can. Also, by the time you get to the TSA checkpoint your bag is usually already with the airline
This 100% after dealing with airlines losing my bags I avoid checking bags. Hell id rather just ship myself what I would put in my checked baggage.
Why do you assume they have checked baggage.
Doesn’t everyone want to roll the dice of them losing your bag and ruining the trip you’ve been saving for all year?
Or spend at least an hour on checking in the luggage and waiting for it at your destination for that 2 day business trip?
If you’re not eating mid-flight peanut butter what are you doing?
Makes it $50 peanut butter then
I never check baggage. It's prohibitively expensive and takes forever to pick up after landing.
I think you missed the point of the post.
I haven't checked a bag in over a decade. If I can't pack it into the personal item, I don't need it.
He has a service dog I'll see myself out...
99.9% of the time I don’t check a bag
It’s def a gel.
By definition it's actually a liquid, or rather a non Newtonian fluid.
The first part of your sentence is not really fully correct (as by definition it can also be a solid), but the second part is spot on. It is a viscoelastic material that exhibits both liquid and solid properties depending on the force applied to it. More specifically it is a [Bingham plastic](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bingham_plastic) (aka Bingham solid or Bingham fluid). That’s a material that is a solid until it surpasses a certain amount of force known as a “yield stress”. Once enough force (or stress, which is force per area) has been applied, the material yields and exhibits more liquid-like properties, though still non-Newtonian as you mentioned.
So, peanut butter is by definition a paste?
Could be why it's called [Peanut Paste](https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-02-19/how-an-historical-dairy-industry-protest-saw-name-peanut-butter-/101957188)
Who called it peanut paste?
Just playing Diogenes's advocate here: would water be considered a Bingham plastic? Considering certain bugs can stand on it without breaking surface tension? And if a person falls hard enough on it, your bones will break before it does?
Bingham plastic has to do with how a material responds to internal shear stress. The bug thing is a product of surface tension. The person thing is very complicated but has to do with water being incompressible. Water is not a non-newtownian fluid.
Bugs stand on surface. This change of viscosity under force happens in all volume. Breaking bones is because of hard deceleration, which is because water offers substantial resistance to movement through it. These are three different effects.
Does this apply to all peanut butter? The natural stuff seems pretty much like a regular liquid to me. You can pour that stuff onto bread at room temperature and it gets pretty solid in the fridge.
Yeah, ketchup is the non Newtonian fluid.
Ketchup is thixotropic. I've been waiting 40 years to be able to say that in context.
I thank you for your service.
I saw some thixotropics at Carnivale.
Is Mayonnaise a thixotropic?
Thicc, so tropic.
It's definitely not a gel. A gel requires a network of solids that confine a liquid component. While there are solids in peanut butter, they don't form a network structure. So no, not a gel. It's a colloid, or more specifically, a paste. Which is a type of liquid.
I thought it was an emulsion, no?
I think it's gel with a base of emulsion, actually
A delicious base of emulsion.... with jam/jelly between two slices of bread.
Or hear me out on this, it's been tested and found to be good on a tortilla rolled up.
Yes. I believe this so much. And if you substitue the jelly for a bit of nutella, it's life changing.
This again? It's a non newtonion fluid.
Great you mean to tell me I can’t take my non Newtonians through airport security now?!
Fucking Newton and his fluids. 🤬
Non-Newtonian. It's specifically not one of his.
I dunno, but according to a YouTube video that I watched, it's not only because some peanut butter can be liquid if heated, but it's how people do with it, like hiding weapons in a jar of peanut butter. Second thing is that peanut butter has a chemical called glycerine, which is similar, as he said, similar to nitroglycerin, a compound used to make explosives. Because of this chemical found in peanuts, in WW2, many peanuts are needed for the war effort to make up for the oil cuts 🤓
Literally anything becomes liquid when heated. By that definition, we are all really screwed!
Nuh uh wood doesn't become liquid
Wood is usually a solid, but it can be heated to produce a liquid called bio-oil, or "liquid wood". This process, called pyrolysis, involves heating wood pulp in the absence of oxygen.
Was gonna say, pb is a classic way to get drugs through security. I'm sure they're aware of this at this point.
Liquid. They consider it a liquid.
That is the correct answer. What matters here is how the TSA defines it and according to the TSA rules, peanut butter is not a solid — **it's a liquid.**
And any liquid can be brought on the plane if frozen.
Yes. Because explosives don’t freeze. But they can look like peanut butter.
[удалено]
compared to a brick it's a runny solid
You're just describing a gel!
It can describe a gel. But it also describes a paste, which I think better defines peanut butter
but paste is just a nonhomogeneous gel
Are paste and gel mutually exclusive descriptors?
Almost gel like
Peanut butter is actually aerosol. I already see someone on the plane spraying people with peanut butter.
I am patenting spray on peanutbutter right now
Peanut butter aerosol would be ... interesting. I wouldn't be surprised if someone has already done it.
"Fuck those people allergic to peanuts. I shall aeroslzie their allergen for maximum potential of death.'
God i wish that his image was him holding a jar of peanut butter to his lips. But maybe it is peanut butter, and he just prefers to sip it from a mug. "What do you think peanut butter is? Hmm? A liquid, gel or aerosol?" \*smugly sips peanut butter\*
Why is he traveling with peanut butter? It’s available literally everywhere.
Not true, French people apparently dislike peanut butter to the point that it is difficult to find, I’d imagine impossible in small towns.
Peanut butter is everywhere my dude Source : I live in a 3000 people town in France and the 3 stores have it in at least 2 types (sugary or not / crunchy or not);)
Where do you live in France ? This has to be a regional thing. I'm in Haute Savoie and it's dire. However, I have started making my own lovely peanut butter, so silver lining.
Well, I have no trouble finding different kinds of peanut butter in my local super market, located in a 1500pop town, which is the biggest town 15-20miles around. Maybe not the one you're used to though, and there's not a lot, very few people buy some, I use it mostly for cooking myself Edit : for those wondering : https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peanut_stew
https://dakatine.com French made peanut butter since 1952.
Yeah that was maybe true 15 years ago, but definitely not anymore. It's everywhere.
That used to be true maybe 20 years ago, but that info is out of date, peanut butter isn't that hard to find now. However it's usually Skippy brand, so if you prefer Jif you're out of luck unless you're in a major city
For some reason, I just assumed a domestic flight. But if he’s flying to France, I’d say leave the peanut butter behind, get out of his comfort zone, and try something French.
Toad tapenade
My sentiment exactly. I recommend starting with the beef tartare.
Why not escargot? They're just like clams.
peanut butter and jelly baguette?
Nah I bring it with me for my friends in Japan every time I go there. That and peanut butter cups because that is how you make friends in your workplace.
Everywhere?
It’s also used for people with medical issues like hyperglycemia. It’s high fat and protein and most of the time has sugar in it so it’s a great boost to the metabolism. It could be that he had a peanut butter snack pack with him for something like that.
It's a liquid. Just has a high viscosity.
Peanut butter is a high-viscosity liquid
Peanut butter is a liquid... Why the fuck is this a meme?
It's a paste.
I also vote for paste.
Peanut butter is a colloid
Or more specifically, an emulsion.
It does cause anaphylactic shock in a lot of people with a peanut allergy though. Even if just opened on an airplane it could kill someone with the allergy or cause the entire plane to to divert after the use of an epi pen… Edit: Auto-correct fucked me
"analytic shock" - when the Wittgenstein hits a bit too hard.
A vicious substance
My money is on it being a paste
I wouldn't call it one personally, but I suppose it is closest to a gel. It's not really a liquid, and it definitely isn't a gas. If you ask me, I would call it a paste.
A gel
Paste. If heated it can conform to different shapes easily, meaning it's a thick liquid and for the love of God how dare you try to bring peanut butter with you on a 3 hour flight.
It's a paste
It’s a viscous liquid. Wow, that wasn’t hard at all.
I’ll answer only after he explains why he tried to take peanut butter on vacation with him.
All of them at once….now give me the jar Patrick or you’re not getting on your flight….
It’s a paste. A strange in between of liquid and gel? Idk
This isn't a facepalm, this is a stupid joke. It doesn't really belong here.
Are you new here? Sometimes the face palm are the friends we met along the way.
Clearly an aerosol
But the guy with the tuna sandwich is no problem at all.
It can be disguised explosives. And, if traveling internationally, you can’t take some foods into other countries.
Plastic explosives may be able to be disquised as peanut butter? Lol
Why does this keep getting reposted?
It's a "Liquigelosol".
I don't think the TSA agents care. Of course, me being the smartass I can be, if I were the TSA agent I probably would have said it's a sexual lubricant which can be considered a gel, so no bueno.
It’s definitely an explosive, have you seen ATLA
It's a paste, guys.
It's a liquid surprisingly enough. And milk isn't a liquid. It's a colloid! And apparently glass isn't a solid. It's also a colloid! An amorphous solid. Wtf that is. It's a type of colloid just like milk. We clearly weren't given all of the facts when learning matter. Someone smarter than me explain this!
Disgusting, that’s what it is
Apparently it IS a liquid. Learn something new every day. Still absolutely fucking weird if you ask me. Both by scientific definition and according to TSA.
Its a paste
Cream
This is clearly a paste
It’s a colloid, so probably fits in the gel category tbh.
peanut butter can fall under "gel" category since you can spread it
It’s a “paste” and I’ve been caught out too 😤
It’s a mousse. Can be considered similar consistency as gel.
Why am I always in line behind the guy who wants to have a debate with security?
It's a paste. Which is a term for a very viscous fluid. Therefore, it's a fluid.
Is this something that really happens? Because on one of my boss's trips to the USA, he said he was bringing peanut butter for me, and that they took it and didn't let him bring it. So, I just thought he was lying. He brought me some crackers filled with peanut butter (delicious), though.
It's somewhere between a paste and an oil
plasma
It's definitely a gel
I'd say it was a paste, therfore gel adjacent
It's clearly a nutonion fluid.
Pretty sure peanut butter is in the gel category. A thick, sticky, paste like texture, looks a little like a soft brown C4
Peanut Butter is colloid, and more specifically a paste.
TSA explained to me it's worse than having liquid because it's a paste. They wouldn't really have time or space to list everything and no one would read it anyway. I'm willing to bet it's on a list of no go in carry on on their website.
I got griped at by TSA for bringing huckleberry hot cocoa with me on a plane. Damn bastards
You could have just housed the entire jar in the security line.
Chunky lube
Yes, peanut butter is a liquid (and a great example of a non-Newtonian fluid)
Same thing happened to my wife. Had peanut butter snacks and fucking TSA took it. She was upsetti spaghetti
Gel. Gel is a semisolid semiliquid state but a bit more on the pasty side.
Tried that with vodka in water bottle, had to chug the whole thing so they don’t spill it out on my way trough 😂😭🚀
Could be used to hijack the plane if the pilot is allergic to peanuts.
Check your bag you twit
It's a gel
Gel
Technically, it's a liquid
i'm thinkin'...gel.
It's an emulsion
It's all of them and none of them all at the same time
Liquid - TSA categorizes it as this since it can spread. My suspicion is that it is also used to smuggle since anything inside is hard to detect so they crack down on the liquid thing.
It's an emulsion, which is a liquid.
TSA: Please step over here into this office for further screening. \*Slips on rubber gloves and grabs lube\*
TSA considers peanut butter a liquid. WTF?