to think that jam is less dangerous than a corkscrew....

[JoanOfNark]

and is not a fecking liquid?

Bloody airport security confiscated my fancy French jams (as well as a few other things, but those were my fault), but let me take on a sharp metal corkscrew. Where is the logic in that? What harm was I going to do anyone with violette figues conserve as opposed to a metal weapon that could have taken out someones jugular?

I argued that if jam is a liquid then you've got bad jam, but neither my french nor my outrage was enough to convince them of my position.

DH says its my own fault, I say IANBU.

I got all the way to states with a swiss army knife in my bag ( genuine error on my part) and that was with a full bag search as a packet of wet wipes set of the liquid thingy on the bag scanner.

They might be afraid that you could jam the radar.

I would happily have paid a very small fee for my lovely jam. Or would have eat it standing in security had I been given more time.
I still maintain IANBU. Bastarding ryanair and bastarding worldwide airline security policies.