That’s dumb. I understand restrictions on uncooked meats, but what harm could a cooked chicken breast do? This is what happens when officials blindly enforce rules without understanding the purpose of the rule in the first place.
It’s a genuine biosecurity risk in Australia. Australia (and NZ) are very susceptible to pathogens from outside so this kind of thing is taken very seriously in both countries.
It’s a genuine biosecurity risk in Australia.
A cooked chicken sandwich? And letting in people who’ve eaten the sandwiches isn’t a biosecurity risk? Hmm. I’m questioning the genuineness of the concern.
You probably shouldn’t let any people in then.
“Nope, don’t worry about that. It’s the chicken sandwiches that are the problem.”
You should be thankful it’s cooked.
If it’s undercooked? Believe it or not, straight to jail.
That’s dumb. I understand restrictions on uncooked meats, but what harm could a cooked chicken breast do? This is what happens when officials blindly enforce rules without understanding the purpose of the rule in the first place.
Overcooked? Also jail.
Brah so we should test all chicken breast coming into the country to make sure it’s cooked? Who the fuck is paying for that? Or maybe you just don’t bring a fucking chicken burger on the plane…
It’s a case of common sense. Obviously an accident, obviously cooked. Throw it in the trash and move on with life. You crazy black and white maniacs that think every rule has to be applied 100% in every case with no possibility of anything ever happening that maybe doesn’t make sense or isn’t the intention of the people who wrote the rule are like 50% of what’s wrong with society.
As a German I feel deeply insulted.
I have a feeling the granny probably pissed someone off along the way. I’m sure sometimes it gets thrown away and everyone moves on.
You and I obviously have no idea what happened at the security gate, or the extent to which she tried to argue about it or hide it. I’ve travelled in and made mistakes in the past and the result was a stern ticking off. I suspect there was more to this.
Us crazy black and white maniacs is why Australia doesn’t get to enjoy the wide array of pest and dieses the rest of the world has.
Fuck this gandma and her chicken burger. Entitled people like her are actually what’s wrong with society.
You can accomplish your goals while not being a dick about it.
You started with name calling and proceed to define others as dicks.
Yes I called the people who charged a grandma $2000 for accidentally bringing a sandwich that has zero chance of carrying avian influenza dicks. Why you’re choosing to take that personally is beyond me.
Avian influenza dicks are what I’d really would not be happy to see in a
sandwichburgerSo you’re ageist too. Got it.
If you can’t tell the difference between raw chicken breast and a piece of fried chicken on sight, please don’t ever work anywhere near the food industry.
If you don’t know chicken can look cooked on the outside but be raw on the inside please don’t ever work anywhere near the food industry.
Who the fuck is smuggling half-cooked chicken breasts for this ‘gotcha’ of yours? Oh, that’s right, no one.
You understand most of risk DAFF is trying to mitigate is accidentally introduction of pests and dieses right?
And I can’t fathom how so many people think customs have the man power to check every hamburger passagers may be inclined to hide in their luggage. Unknown and unprocessed meat is a risk, cheapest and safest way to reduce the risk is to ban it.
But you know, you guys continue to enjoy your airplane hamburgers along with rabies, brown marmorated stink bugs, khapra beetles, giant african snails and all the other shit we manage to keep out with strict quarantine laws.
Okay, it is banned. Tell them to throw it away. Don’t fine the everliving shit out of them for a cooked sandwich.
That’s generally the rule - if you’re not sure, declare it, then if it’s not allowed, it’s binned. There are even signs all over the place through Aus (& NZ) customs saying exactly this.
If you don’t declare it and it’s found or it looks like you’ve tried to hide it (wrapped in luggage) then that’s when you get in trouble for it.
I’ve worked in imports for 20 odd years and would have witnessed ABF & DAFF (and their previous 5 or 6 names) seize or hold hundreds of thousands of items. I’ve never seen a fine issued for a simple mistake, they’re normally reserved for when there is deceit or concealment.
Unknown and unprocessed meat is a risk
A risk of what? And why would that risk not apply to the people coming in who’ve been eating that meat?
rabies, brown marmorated stink bugs, khapra beetles, giant african snails
All things that are not typically found in chicken sandwiches…
What risk from meat?? Where the fuck have you been for the last 4 years brah??
What shitty article. No explanation of anything. Get this shit out of here.
ChatGPT at your service kind Sir.
Granny shoulda watched that show, “border security: Australia”
To make it worse, we have our own in New Zealand, which is the (worldwide) original of that format. The Aussie series is a spin-off.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Border_Patrol_(New_Zealand_TV_series)
Funny thing is, NZ is actually stricter on this issue than Australia.
That’s a chicken burger in the picture, love when there’s an article about aus/nz but using American nomenclature
It even converted to USD. But for real y’all call it a chicken burger?
Burger is ground meat and chicken sandwiches are often made of whole meat. Cheapo ones are mechanically separated which would count as ground, but the one in the photo is not.
Over here if it’s on a bun it’s a burger, if it’s on sliced bread it’s a sandwich, simple as
Precisely this. American terminology applies in America only.
I’m sorry, but we invented English. We say what words are valid in the language.
LOL, America did what now? Invented English? Met an English fella the other day, born and raised in New York.
I don’t like having to use /s, but there are people like you.
Britain speaks Old English. We speak the newest one.
A Cuban sandwich is on a bun, is that a burger? Same goes for cheese steaks and French dips and subs, served on buns, is burger?
No, no, it has to be a round bun.
So White Castle doesn’t count as a burger? 🤔
White Castle does not exist in AU/NZ so the round bun criteria is still consistent
You’re expecting logic from the Alcatraz continent?
What about sandwiches made with rolls and bagels?
Also, I see the aussie point, but, in the US, burger is short for hamburger, which refers to the meat itself. Do you only say ground beef too? Or is ground beef also called hamburger?
And also… Is a burger not considered a type of sandwich?
I hadn’t heard of this dialect difference. Fun stuff!
The meat is beef mince or minced beef (not ground). It’s formed into and cooked as a patty, which is one component of a delicious hamburger.
I think most people would say yes to “is a burger a type of sandwich” but that’s a very different question to would you call a burger a sandwich, which an Aussie would not.
A roll is a roll and a bagel is a bagel, a sub is a sub, they’re not really called sandwiches here unless it’s on sliced bread
A bagel is a bagel. Two halves of a bagel with something on between are still a bagel. The same goes for a roll. A sandwich is two slices of bread with something in between.
nope we’d call that a burger in aus/nz
The link didn’t load for me, but this link has an interesting bit at the end-
“Meat has strict import conditions which can change quickly based on disease outbreaks,” the spokesperson said, adding that passengers can be fined up to 6,260 Australian dollars, or around $4,100, for bringing unauthorized food items into the country.
It’s not the first time a passenger has been fined for bringing an undeclared item through an Australian airport. In August, a passenger was fined $1,200 for walking with a rose at an airport in Australia. And in August last year, a passenger was fined $1,870 for packing McMuffin sandwiches on a flight from Bali to Australia.
@FlyingSquid @throws_lemy Who the hell declares a sandwich???
Apparently someone who doesn’t want Australia to fine them. The real question is why Australia doesn’t let people know this before they enter the country when the TSA easily lets people know about all the things they can’t bring on a plane with signs before they even go through a security checkpoint.
Some of these rules are just silly and arbitrary. Once I was driving down to the USA from Canada and I had a banana sitting on the dash for a snack.
The customs agent angrily tells me “You can’t bring a banana into America”. So I chomped down the banana, and offered the peel for disposal.
“I don’t want the peel, you can keep the peel”
I looked confused and asked how the peel was any different from the whole banana, and he’s just like “move along, next vehicle”
I think he was just hungry and wanted to swipe my banana
My father visited the USSR in the late 80s. When he left, he was required by law to return all of the Soviet money he had exchanged. He offered all of his rubles and then he emptied his pockets and he had a handful of kopeks in them and put them on the desk. The customs guy looked down at them and said, “you keep kopek.” And that’s how I got a few Soviet kopeks as a kid to add to my coin collection.
At the US Canada border crossing, if you don’t declare a pack of gum or a candy bar for a inspection it can be used as an “issue”
I was warned of this a few years ago as they asked me if I wanted to declare anything before they started their random vehicle inspection.
One time I was driving my Gf’s car and at some point a orange had rolled under her seat and had turned into a dried out black ball.
They let me off with a stiff warning that I was lucky since I didn’t declare and they could tell it was an accident. They have to be concerned about the orange crops (in Florida I guess?) I was told. I was crossing in Washington State though.
Crossing in Washington the guard got angry at us because one of us was from DC, one from Vegas, and one from Seattle. He was offended that we came from different places.
It sucks how people are left up to the whim of the guards working. If they are having a bad day, odds are you will too.
@WashedOver that’s insane
That same info was also in the linked article.
Like I said, the link didn’t load for me.
I was merely letting you know. There’s no need to downvote factual information.
I didn’t downvote anything.
“Don’t risk it for a Bisquit”
Bisquick has ruined your spelling.
Got me, apologies on this, but it was nesquick
“Flightless” for a reason, grandma.
Same thing happened to me with a Tim Hortons bagel. Border guards with small dicks having a power trip. The best part? The question on the computer was “are you importing any xyz…”. I was not importing it, I was eating it at the airport. Still had my Nexus taken.
I remember flying back from Spain one time and a young woman behind me in line to clear customs had two Spanish sausages, long ones, on top of her luggage. They were a no-no. Clearly, she did not give a fuck. Customs let her through.
