I always warn my mother not to bring pickles when visiting here from the des. [Here's why] (tip Runa via email)
A suspicious piece of luggage that the Columbus Bomb Squad detonated Tuesday night at Port Columbus International Airport turned out to be a canister filled with pickled mangoes.
You see Indians are much more conscientious about recycling. So when we are done with a jar of baby food, instead of tossing into the garbage, we recycle. We use it as a container for pickles. Apparently, TSA authorities find such recycling “suspicious”.
The label on the canister was identified as “baby food,” Landers reported. The woman who owned the suitcase was questioned and claimed the canister contained pickles. Her claim made security more suspicious so the bomb squad was called.
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In fact authorities found it so suspicious, they took it to a remote corner of the airport and, get this, blew it up! A perfectly good container of homemade mango pickles blown to smithereens on foreign soil. At this stage, we are unable to confirm if the victim was maavadu, maanga tokku or avakai.
On hearing of this tragedy, one of our bloggers had this to say:
“So sad – someone’s Amma carefully made and packed and carried Urugai all the way from the des and the TSA ruthlessly blows it up – chillies all over- red oil splattered around the airport- shrapnel in the form of the hard mango shell ….”
In the war of Indian and American cultures, a line has been crossed.
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