There’s the old saying that an apple a day keeps the doctor away—but clearly, the same doesn’t hold true for sunflower seeds and TSA agents.

At least that was the experience of Ellen Pompeo , who detailed how a bomb squad investigated her travel snack while she was at the airport.

"I had a bag of sunflower seeds, like organic sunflower seeds from Erewhon, so they were probably the most expensive sunflower seeds money can buy," the Grey's Anatomy star recently cracked to Travel + Leisure of shopping at the upscale organic L.A.-based grocery chain. "They literally held me for an hour, and they brought the bomb squad in. And I was like, what is happening? Is this a joke?"

On the contrary, it was no laughing matter. And no, they weren’t just interested in what she planned to ea

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