a few months after 911, we flew with our three large bottles of booze bought on the cheap in Mexico and three large bottles of Mexican vanilla, all carried on.
In May of 2006, I flew back from the UK with a bottle of Scotch and a bottle of Australian wine I’d won on the bus tour I’d been on. Brought it on board the planes in my backpack. At that time, there were no restrictions as to the amount of liquid you could carry onboard.
The passengers on that flight are lucky they survived. ;-)