![]() From Seneca’s Letters – Book II Letter XLVIII ![]() ![]() Now a mouse eats its cheese therefore, a syllable eats cheese… Without a doubt, I must beware, or some day I shall be catching syllables in a mousetrap or, if I grow careless, a book may devour my cheese! Unless, perhaps, the following syllogism is shrewder still: Mouse is a syllable. It’s been around for a long time, even being mentioned by philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca about 2000 years ago: So how did the myth that mice liked cheese get started? Nobody knows. Basically, they like to eat what they’ve been accustomed to eating since before humans started making cheese around 10,000 years ago. David Holmes of Manchester Metropolitan University who recently did a study on whether mice liked cheese or not, while if hungry enough, mice will pretty much eat anything (even nibble on you, cardboard, whatever), most type of mice strongly prefer grains, fruits, and sweet things certain types of mice will also eat insects and other small animals. In fact, as any pest exterminator or pet shop owner knows, mice don’t really like cheese at all and they’ll even actively shy away from certain types of cheese (they have a very sensitive sense of smell and certain cheeses give off odors that are repulsive to many types of mice).Īccording to Dr. Myth: Mice love cheese and it makes a great bait for mouse traps.
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