Travelers heading home from Genoa, Italy can take a full measure of the area’s delicious pesto, a sauce of pine nuts, basil, garlic and cheese. The airport has arranged to waive the 100ml limit on liquids for the special sauce.
There’s a catch or two, though. The flight must be non-stop home from Genoa, because they can’t guarantee that the pesto will pass through at the next airport. The rule applies only to locally-made pesto. And the traveler must be willing to make a contribution to a local charity that provides air transport for sick kids.
The pesto, up to 500g worth, is allowed under a campaign labeled ‘Il pesto è buono’ (Pesto is good), which started when airport officials realized they were seizing hundreds of jars at the airport. The exempted pasta is still x-rayed and scanned. In the first 20 days, over 500 travelers took part. Airport officials say that many of them weren’t visitors, but local folk who don’t like to go on vacation without their favorite pesto.
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