I have to share a story from the previous weekend my family and I spent visiting relatives in Victoria, BC. One of the very relaxing things we did every day while there was picking blackberries. I do miss them around here like so many of the fruit from my childhood. On the last day I wanted to pick a few more and take them back to Calgary. I would have preferred to carry them onto the plane rather than checking them in and having them all squished. To be on the safe side I phoned Air Canada to check if it would be allowed to bring along about 2 lbs of blackberries. "Oh yes, 100% no problems with that" was the reply I got. Really? I repeated my question as I was surprised that there was no issue at all. "Yes, any electronic items like these can be carried onto the plane" .... I was laughing so hard I had a tough time to continue talking. And even after I mentioned that "no, I mean the blackberries you can eat" the friendly customer service rep was clueless. "What are you talking about?" was his response.
Interesting world we live in today. Who knows if that customer rep is sitting somewhere in a call centre in India where he's never seen blackberries of the edible kind or if he's just a young kid that loves his electronics ...
In the end I placed the blackberries into a ziploc and the ziploc into a box and the box into the checked suitcase. We had some wonderful vanilla pudding with it the next day ;-)