A seafood company has found that frozen peas, carrots and corn go great with lobster on airplanes.
Clearwater Seafoods used to add frozen gel packs to live lobster boxes when preparing a carry-on for travellers looking to take home a taste of Nova Scotia.
That stopped on Aug. 10, after British police said they foiled a plot to blow up planes flying from Britain to the United States using carried-on substances.
The Canadian Air Transport Security Authority reacted by banning almost all liquids and gels in carry-on luggage on flights within Canada and those to the U.S. and Britain.
To get around the new rules, Clearwater started to vacuum-seal bags of frozen vegetables so passengers could once again carry live lobster.
Darleen Martel, manager of the company's store at the Halifax International Airport, said customers are still getting used to the new packaging.
"They're like, 'what are you putting in that box?'" Martel said, adding she always follows the question with an explanation of the carry-on rules.
Martel goes to Clearwater's main location in Bedford every day to make the frozen vegetable packs, sometimes up to 150 a day. Then she heads back to the airport.
Martel said according to Clearwater's biology department, carrots, corn and peas stay frozen longer than the gel packs.
