I was behind an older fellow in the security line at the airport. 

“Any liquids or gels?” security asked.
“Yes,” the old man replied, pulling a one litre yogurt container from his bag. “I have this.”
“That’s more than 100ml sir.”
The man replies, “Yes, it’s sealed.” 

Security guy paused. “That doesn’t matter,” he explained, “you can only bring in liquids contained in 100ml containers.”

“That doesn’t make sense…”  the old man said, bewildered. “How will I eat my yogurt on the plane if I can’t take it on the plane?” It was a good question. 

At this point those of us behind the man stopped unloading our own liquids, gels, and computers to watch the interaction, causing frustration among the poor losers behind us who were out of earshot of what was surely going to be a memorable morning security line chat.

The man pointed out that he couldn’t put anything in the yogurt and pretend to reseal it because the yogurt would not be fresh. So why are they so worried about this clearly sealed yogurt? Another man behind me agreed: “Why is the government so interested in our yogurt consumption anyway?!” My heart fluttered at the thought of an airport yogurt protest.

After a lengthy back and forth between the man and the security guy about whether the security guy’s information was out of date (“when was the last time you flew anyway?”), the price of yogurt ($13!), and a discussion of whether yogurt should count as a liquid or gel (yes), the man got into a short-lived conspiracy theory about the airlines enforcing this no yogurt rule so that he would have to buy food on the plane. By now nobody was actually going through security – we had all stopped to see how this would play out. The security guards, likely underpaid, were like “whatever.” 

Finally, and luckily before I missed my flight, the man paused.
“I know!”
He took out his pill containers and dumped all of his pills into the clear bag that is meant to hold your actual liquids and gels, opened the yogurt container, and put yogurt into the pill containers. He filled up all three and put them in his bin. Then he pulled out a spoon, went to the side, and proceeded to eat the rest of the 1L tub of yogurt.

It was, after all, $13.