Yes, it’s true. A restaurant in Bengaluru, home city of KFC yaniki Karnataka Fried Chicken, has invented idli on an ice cream stick, because pyaar tera sancha. Basically an idli shaped to look like a popsicle, it has been photographed on a steel plate shaped to look like a banana leaf. One idli stick is artfully dipped in a katori of sambhar alongside, like a swimsuit model angling her leg—in case you did not get the benefit of the innovation.

Predictably, there has been some mournful handwringing on Twitter. Dukh and resignation ki why can’t you leave the idli alone it seems. Personally, I was relieved because in bleak times there is some grim reassurance in knowing that meaningless debates about food are the same as ever. They usually revolve around authenticity, mother’s cooking, memories of paper boats in rain puddles and other etcetera nonsense about golden pasts and toast toast na raha, gutter mein gaya presents, or, as one person tweeted, if petrol prices are going up, government is spying on us, farmers are still on strike, why not idli on a stick?