[Sca-cooks] marzipan plastique

Yehoshua ben Haym zkessin at cs.brandeis.edu
Wed Dec 24 07:31:12 PST 2003


G-d I would not want to try that around here. They are a little jumpy
about security in Israel and I am used to having my bag checked on a
regular basis. Esp since I don't know enough Hebrew to talk my way out of
that one.


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Yehoshua ben Haym haYerushalmi
Senischal soon to be Shire of Beit Aryeh
MKA Zachary Kessin Jerusalem, Israel
zkessin at cs.brandeis.edu IM:ZachKessin LiveJournal: zachkessin

On Wed, 24 Dec 2003, Mary Morman wrote:

> I attended the Leeds University cooking conference in York last spring -
> right at Easter - and managed to score and entire 5 kilo block of
> marzipan from my very favorite York confectioner.  He took it straight
> out of the kitchen wrapped it in plastic wrap and tucked it in a large
> plastic ziplock-type bad.  I was VERY chuffed!  I packed it in my
> checked luggage and found notes from both the Brit and US security
> people asking me if I were to pack something like this again to please
> label it as foodstuffs.  The marzipan had been opened and bits pulled
> off the end - for testing, I imagine.
>
> And -I- am willing to be that the Patriot Act DOES INDEED include a
> paragraph to the effect that "you can destoy the property of anyone you
> choose, just because..."
>
> Elaina
>
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