Smuggling meat products (interstate)

[FreakofSnow]

Not really smuggling, but thought title might get some attention.

I need to get some of my recently butchered Elk to California. It will bring smiles the faces of my family members I'll be visiting this week. I am flying on United to Reno.

My question is:

Can I can just check it as a piece of luggage (styrofoam shipping box in a cardboard box)

OR

Am I better off shipping 2 day via UPS? (looks like it will cost about 70 bucksl....DAMN!)

Please help a carniverous brotha out......

[Free Range Lobster]

Fedex as perishable.

[IskiEC]

Carry on.

[Lloyd Braun]

as long as the meat was killed and processed in the ole USofA you can strap that shit to your back and go any where you like.

[FreakofSnow]

I guess what I am debating over is that I can't carry it on, because it needs to remain frozen....which means it needs to have liquid of some sort near it (i.e. gel packs) and I don't think TSA is allowing that.

[Tippster]

$10 Plastic Cooler. Frozen Gel Pacs. Duct Tape. Seal after TSA Inspection.

[72Twenty]

Did you ask the airline?

[FreakofSnow]

$10 Plastic Cooler. Frozen Gel Pacs. Duct Tape. Seal after TSA Inspection.

Sounds good, but they have the 3-oz maximum allowance on liquids, right?

[cj001f]

So buy a couple fountain drinks with xtra Ice post security and dump them in the cooler.

Then vote the fucktards behind the TSA out of office ASAP

[iceman]

Personally I'd just check it, should be the least amount of hassle if they don't steal it.

[fez]

freeze it, dry ice, check it.

a caterer i worked for once used this method to bring a bunch of buffalo prime ribs from colorado to a wedding in new york.

[Tippster]

Sounds good, but they have the 3-oz maximum allowance on liquids, right?

Only for carry-on. I'm talking about the TSA check where you bring your luggage to the x-ray machine and leave it there. You can request this - justm like if you were checking a gun. They look through it and then you padlock it after. They wrap "TSA" tape around it to show it's been inspected and it goes into the belly of the plane. Use a hard plastc (non-styrofoam) cooler and you should be fine. I see coolers full of meat all the time at the luggage carousel when flying during hunting/fishing seasons.

You can check all the liquid you want, I think. You just can't carry it on.

[irul&ublo]

I always ship a huge chunk of meat whenever I fly.

[Staggerwing]

I remember hearing on the radio one day, that one of the small airline terminal seafood stops got around the "no liquids" ban by packing with frozen, bagged vegetables. Go to the store, buy several bags of cheap, frozen, peas, corn, whatever, and use instead of gel packs.

[Lloyd Braun]

I always ship a huge chunk of meat whenever I fly.

post of the day!

[RootSkier]

I always ship a huge chunk of meat whenever I fly.

I always carry on a huge chunk of meat whenever I fly.

[Steven S. Dallas]

I always carry on a huge chunk of meat whenever I fly.

Is it a dick in a box?

[FreakofSnow]

I always carry on a huge chunk of meat whenever I fly.

I always grab my huge of chunk of meat to carry when I fly.

[Daywalker]

I always grab my huge of chunk of meat to carry when I fly.

Does he sit next to you?

[ak_powder_monkey]

we see a ton of salmon shipped via the airport here you gotta check it and check the max amount of dry ice you can check. When in doubt call the airline

[AbsolutStoli]

dry ice and ship it i say.

do you want the hassle of the dogs getting a hold of your meat? might get customs on your back. have to explain it and convince them that its not a dead person...and what if it gets lost???

[hutash]

Get a plastic ice chest, pack with meat and dry ice. Have TSA inspect, tape shut, check as luggage, done.

[RootSkier]

Is it a dick in a box?

Yes, yes it is.

[cj001f]

Yes, yes it is.

You fly on Air Force 2?

[haydukelives]

and throw in a little pork on top so the know you are safe