Contraband foodstuffs make a most-wanted list [Boston Globe]
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The pile might include cured salamis and whole prosciutto (there are plenty of those, say the officers), and slabs of raw meat tucked away in someone’s luggage next to socks and toiletries. As the only airport in the country where flights arrive from Cape Verde, islands off the coast of Senegal, Logan disposes of an unusual amount of goat meat. Barry remembers a recent flight from the islands, where one passenger was traveling with a cooler full of whole fish (fish are permissible under US customs laws). Hidden beneath their silvery bodies was skinned, still-bloody goat meat. Yams come in from Africa. Not sweet potatoes from Stop & Shop, says Barry, which aren’t yams at all. Real yams are big roots and people are willing to wrestle for them. “I’ve been in a few tugs of war over them,” he says. A Malden resident, a native of Morocco, manages to get through with a suitcase stuffed with a gallon of cured black olives, olive oil, almond oil, and sweet candies made of peanuts and honey. The confections are from her mother. Another woman off of an Air France flight watches tearfully as a gloved hand rifles through her underwear and blouses and removes every last illegal sausage.
Contraband foodstuffs make a most-wanted list [Boston Globe]
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