Comments on: Mango Pickle Down River

By: Heather Conner

Heather Conner — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 00:20:27 +0000

Oh my… This makes me want to laugh, because mango pickles are incredibly tempting anywhere, anytime, but detonation?! Wow!

By: somh

somh — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 07:03:29 +0000

I have smuggled mango achaar here multiple times… hopefully it was sealed…. but wow… detonating… WOW.

By: Annie

Annie — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:58:21 +0000

This isn’t the first case of exploding achar and it probably won’t be the last. A few years ago I (along with hundreds of others)was evacuated out of my local airport due to a suspicious item in someone’s luggage. According to the newspaper the next day, the suspicious item was a sealed tin of mango pickle.

By: kusala

kusala — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 02:28:49 +0000

If it were my own homemade mango achaar (recipe from Sudha Koul's cookbook), I might definitely want to pack it with me. Maybe it wasn't "labeled" baby food, maybe it was something homemade, but repacked into a re-used babyfood jar more likely.

More strange is the security getting "suspicious" when she called it "pickle". I can just see the Ohioans: "Those sure ain't no Vlasic dill spears.... let's whisk that thing away and DETONATE IT!"

I'm sure people bring stranger foodstuffs with them (I've heard of people smuggling giant unpasteurized cheeses from Europe, &c.).

By: Brahmastra

Brahmastra — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 17:06:11 +0000

Typical.. Ignorance and over-reaction are only becoming more and more common

By: Anita Mannur

Anita Mannur — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 22:40:53 +0000

Oh how I love my current ‘hometown’ Columbus. This reminds me actually of a sign I saw in Bombay airport in 2006. The Airport Authoritties of India had a large note saying pickles could not be carried on as hand-luggage (pre 3 oz restrictions on liquid) and I’m wondering what is this inner fury that our beloved achar carries. Yeah, and that person carrying the pickles in Columbus was probably a Michigan fan.

By: jyotsana

jyotsana — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 21:33:18 +0000

Zubin Mehta is known to have carried a matchbox sized container of mirchi powder in his pockets, “Sprinkle some on your food, and anything tastes nice!” What to do if you can’t have the dhansak and walnut ice-cream!

By: Cultural Nuance

Cultural Nuance — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 05:52:33 +0000

It’s the title of an M.I.A. song.

OK, that explains why I am M.I.A.opic:)

By: paradesi

paradesi — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 01:17:10 +0000

Hmmmm Columbus, Ohio? Was this woman wearing a Michigan shirt by any change. They'll let a brown woman with a suspicious package go, but not a Michigan grad ! On a similar note, one of my uncles came to visit us with a bag of gujias. Not only did the security guy believe him when he said they were sweets, but tasted one too.

By: Wanderer

Wanderer — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:20:00 +0000

Bevkoof goray