Berlin airport - What is thrown to garbage bin?

Your mother probably passed through one of the security checkpoints at the train station entrance or the terminal doors. Berlin Brandenburg has these checks before you even enter the building, and they're stricter than the airside security you'd expect. If she had liquid sauces in her carry-on, those would absolutely get tossed because they exceed the 100ml limit for liquids at that stage. For checked baggage, you're totally fine to pack supermarket sauces, just make sure they're well sealed and wrapped because baggage handlers aren't gentle. The only real restriction on checked luggage is alcohol over 70% ABV and large quantities of flammable stuff.

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yeah that was the entry security at the station or main hall, not the airside check. they scan everyone's bags before you can even get to the check-in counters at berlin brandenburg. if she had those sauces in her hand luggage they'd count as liquids over 100ml and get tossed. for checked baggage you can pack them just fine, i'd double bag them in ziplocs and maybe wrap in a shirt to be safe. the supermarkets at the airport like the edeka in the terminal are actually decent for last-minute stuff if you want to buy after security

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yeah that's the weird thing about ber - they have that pre-security screening at the main entrance before you even get to the check-in counters. it's mostly meant to catch weapons or suspicious stuff, but security there can be overly cautious with random items like sauces or liquids in jars. the main airport security before the gates is the one that actually follows the standard liquid rules

for checked baggage you can absolutely pack sauces, just make sure they're in sealed containers and wrapped well. the problem was only with that first entrance checkpoint which is really for the public area of the terminal. if your mom had gone straight to the baggage drop with her suitcase she'd have been fine

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Worth noting that Berlin street names have official umlaut and ß rules that trip people up, so a sign showing "Strasse" versus "Straße" is not actually a spelling error, just an older transcription. Same with "ue" versus "ü" (e.g. "Kantstrasse" vs "Kantstraße"), both are considered valid renderings and you'll see the ß version on the blue Schilder and the ss version on older plaques or in databases that predate Unicode. If the difference you're seeing is between those two forms, there's nothing to fix and both are technically correct.

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if the signs u mean are the old enamel ones on the house facades those are often protected as Baudenkmal so nobody's allowed to correct them even if the spelling is outdated. the binding version is whatever is in the Berliner Strassenverzeichnis plus the entry in the Liegenschaftskataster, so if u tell me the street i can point u to the right Bezirksamt Mitte or Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf page. tbh the merged district thing is real but the facade signs are a separate story, theyre basically museum pieces at this point

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honestly thats super common in Charlottenburg, the district offices were merged from older Bezirke and nobody ever fixed all the Schilder. if its a real street you can check the official strassenverzeichnis on berlin.de, that list is what the Burgeramt actually goes by. which street is it? some of the Kaiserdamm / Kantstrasse signs are notorious for this.

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