FULL STORY: The level of anger these five words have stoked is kind of amazing: The TSA went viral after tweeting that “peanut butter is a liquid.”
It’s been viewed more than 20 million times in the last few days. The post said, quote, “Peanut butter is a liquid. We said what we said.”
They obviously meant to irk people with it. But they really do classify it as a liquid. If you want to carry peanut butter on a plane, it has to be 3.4 ounces or less.
Some nerdy internet sleuths pointed out that technically, peanut butter is NOT a liquid . . . it’s a non-Newtonian fluid.
(Or if you really want to get technical, part of a subset of non-Newtonian fluids called Bingham plastics. Toothpaste and mayonnaise are also Bingham plastics. Yum.)
The reactions online have been fun. One person called for a congressional oversight hearing . . . another joked they can no longer wash down their meal “with a nice cold glass of peanut butter” . . . and a third person was blunt with it, telling the TSA, “This is why no one likes you.”
(BuzzFeed)
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