OK, I'm mildly surprised. That's pretty odd, even to me, who has eaten fried ice cream (its pretty good, IIRC, but they have to make it very cold, before they fry it).

“They planned their campaigns just as you might make a splendid piece of harness. It looks very well; and answers very well; until it gets broken; and then you are done for. Now I made my campaigns of ropes. If anything went wrong, I tied a knot; and went on.”
-- Arthur Wellesley, First Duke of Wellington