Is That a Salami in your pocket or.....

...is it an Underwear Bomb!!  I never saw this one coming.  As a result of increased screening of airline passengers, the smugglers of meats from around the world are finding it nearly impossible to get through customs.  I have to say, I have never hear of this before but apparrently it is a thriving business for chefs and exclusive restaruants.

Such measures might discourage terrorists, but they are also likely to catch chefs smuggling meat from Europe. Chefs such as Rey Knight, who once flew from Italy to Miami with a pork shoulder and fennel-pollen salami vacuum-sealed and hidden inside a stainless-steel water bottle. Another time, he says, he hid a 4-pound goose-liver torchon from France inside the belly of a salmon.

The government is on the job, though, and not taking any "bolongna"...

Sausages and hams "are much more dangerous than people think," says Janice Mosher, an official at U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which seizes about 4,000 pounds of prohibited meat, plant and animal products a day. "Those items truly have the ability to spread disease." The government is concerned that bacteria from a smuggled piece of meat will spread through the ecosystem, infecting livestock and hurting agricultural production, Ms. Mosher says.

I may turn off the comment button for this one...Too many opportunity for puns...:)