Once I was making instant pudding in a dorm kitchen. The kitchen being not-very-well equipped, and me needing something with which to stir the pudding, I rummaged through the drawers and pulled out a strange-looking but serviceable utensil.

"Do you think this will work?" I asked my friend.

She looked at it. "Well," she said seriously, "that's a whisk you'll just have to take."