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Why are mice associated with cheese?

Discussion in 'Chit Chat' started by Level N Human, Sep 21, 2007.

  1. Level N Human

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    Well!? Where would a natural mouse even find cheese or anything like it? Mice usually eat grains and fruit. What draws them to cheese? Do they even like cheese? If not, why all the canonical cartoon mice and their obssession with cheese?

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    I dont know......thats a good question?
     
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    cuz in cartoons mice can hide in the holes of swiss cheese?

    but seriously.... what living thing in its right mind wouldnt want cheese?
     
  4. Tom

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    from what i know mice will have a go at eating anythin and so if they found cheese they wud have a nibble, if one of the cartoon writers saw this then tht cud b where the whole mice cheesy thingie cud come from.
     
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    Mice aren't particularly fond of cheese. They prefer sweet things.
     
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    *looks around suspiciously*

    she knows too much!
     
  7. Level N Human

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    I just read an article saying that recent research has shown that mice really don't prefer cheese. And they do indeed prefer grains and sweet things. The myth about mice preferring cheese dates back to when people tried to trap mice with pieces of cheese ebcause they thought the strong odor would attract them. =O I know now. ^^