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Using a chocolate bar as a boarding pass might sound amusing or imaginative at first, but in practice, it would be an outright disaster on multiple levels—logistically, hygienically, and technologically. For starters, chocolate is a perishable and highly unstable substance when exposed to even mildly warm temperatures. Airports, especially during the summer or in tropical regions, are filled with warm pockets of air, crowded lines, and direct sunlight from massive glass windows. A chocolate bar in someone’s hand, pocket, or bag could easily melt into a sticky, unusable mess long before boarding time even arrives. A melted boarding pass can’t be scanned or visually confirmed, making the entire check-in and security process chaotic and inefficient.
Beyond the issue of melting, chocolate is also fragile and messy. It can be snapped in half, crumbled, smudged, or even accidentally eaten—especially by children or absentminded adults. Imagine a parent giving their child the chocolate bar boarding pass to hold, only to discover halfway through the terminal that it’s been reduced to nothing but a few chocolate fingerprints and a smile. Even if passengers somehow manage to preserve the chocolate bar intact, airport scanners and boarding gates are designed to read barcodes or digital information from paper or smartphones—not candy. There would be no practical way to embed verifiable data into a chocolate bar that could be scanned quickly and securely. The entire boarding process would grind to a halt as staff manually inspect melting, licked, or broken chocolate bars and try to verify names and flight numbers by some absurdly inefficient method.
There’s also the hygiene factor to consider. Chocolate, being a food item, can attract germs, dirt, and even pests—especially if it’s being passed around or handled frequently. If every traveler at an airport was carrying an edible boarding pass, you’d quickly end up with melted chocolate smeared on seats, conveyor belts, counters, and hands. Security personnel and airline workers would need gloves just to check boarding passes, and sanitation teams would have to work overtime to scrub down chocolate-covered surfaces. W
2025-07-15 11:06:14