Ellen Pompeo’s travel plans hit a snag when TSA decided her fancy snack wasn’t cleared for takeoff. It seems even A-list treats need to abide by economy rules…

The 55-year-old actress was stopped by TSA in March for trying to board a plane with a bag of Erewhon sunflower seeds.

“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,” she recently told Travel + Leisure. “They literally held me for an hour, and they brought the bomb squad in.”

Pompeo started to think she was being Punk’d.

But she was told that “it was most likely a chemical on the packaging of these super expensive, fancy, organic, clean sunflower seeds” that made the TSA investigate the swanky snack.

“I almost missed the flight,

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