To be honest, mice are not nearly as fond of cheese as everybody seems to think. I looked it up and the following bit from an article on CRACKED.COM that explains this particular urban myth.“As for mice and cheese, to start off, mice have really sensitive noses, so Limburger would peel their little mousey faces off. Figuratively speaking. And then a recent study that we hope was funded by a grant to investigate cartoon myths found that mice respond to the taste, smell and texture of food, and will decline something as strong-smelling and highly flavored as cheese. They’re actually drawn to foods with relatively high sugar content, such as grains and fruit. In response to all this cheese/mice humbug, the apparently bored British Parliament released a “technical note” suggesting that mice be caught with, “biscuits, porridge oats, other cereals and chocolate.”……As for mice and cheese, one popular theory (which hasn’t been discussed scientifically, so take this cum grano salis), is that mice were constantly being discovered in medieval cupboards eating the household cheese stash. But this would have been because it was the only food they could get to — the meat would be hanging and salted, and grain would be stored in jars. It was cheese or starvation."Still, my theory is that when someone mutates into an anthro, they change into their image of what their apparent species would be. Since Holly probably never knew that the whole mouse/cheese thing was a myth, she forgoes the usual rodent staples for “CHEESH!”
To be honest, mice are not nearly as fond of cheese as everybody seems to think. I looked it up and the following bit from an article on CRACKED.COM that explains this particular urban myth.“As for mice and cheese, to start off, mice have really sensitive noses, so Limburger would peel their little mousey faces off. Figuratively speaking. And then a recent study that we hope was funded by a grant to investigate cartoon myths found that mice respond to the taste, smell and texture of food, and will decline something as strong-smelling and highly flavored as cheese. They’re actually drawn to foods with relatively high sugar content, such as grains and fruit. In response to all this cheese/mice humbug, the apparently bored British Parliament released a “technical note” suggesting that mice be caught with, “biscuits, porridge oats, other cereals and chocolate.”……As for mice and cheese, one popular theory (which hasn’t been discussed scientifically, so take this cum grano salis), is that mice were constantly being discovered in medieval cupboards eating the household cheese stash. But this would have been because it was the only food they could get to — the meat would be hanging and salted, and grain would be stored in jars. It was cheese or starvation."Still, my theory is that when someone mutates into an anthro, they change into their image of what their apparent species would be. Since Holly probably never knew that the whole mouse/cheese thing was a myth, she forgoes the usual rodent staples for “CHEESH!”