Can you freeze liquids to pass security checks?

Once I read a suggestion saying that frozen "liquids" are not subject to the 100 ml restriction of security checks in airports. I've found other references of this googling, but they all refer to TSA (I assume only hold in the US).

Is it true then that it's possible to carry frozen fluids in your hand luggage, in larger quantities than 100 ml?

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Please note this answer is from May 2014. The situation might have changed since. Please consider alternative answers to this question.

As you saw on the official TSA Blog, it says explicitly

"Frozen gels/liquids are permitted if required to cool medical and infant/child exemptions. Frozen gels/liquids for any other purpose are not permitted."

So it's off limits in the USA.

The UK for example states the definition of liquid by matter of subject (such as all drinks etc) instead of their shape or status (frozen etc). So it is safe to assume that drinks, frozen or not, are not permitted.

Same goes for the EU.

So in other words, no. You cannot take a drink into the airplane, just because it's frozen. It's still a "drink". You will have to live with the fact that the regulations are not using terminology that matches what we learn in physical science.