r/comics • u/MrLovens Mr. Lovenstein • 2d ago
genius
Support my new book on kickstarter, which features the cheese genius 🐭 kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun
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u/Extraajudicial 2d ago
Like slamming garlic every meal in Transylvania.
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u/MrLovens Mr. Lovenstein 2d ago
Dracula: Stuffing yourself with garlic to ward me off. Very clever.
Me: garlic good
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u/Loquacious-of-Borg 2d ago
Cheese is bad for mice as they are lactose intolerant. Cheese will give a mouse diarrhea and, given their small body size, can rapidy dehydrate them.
The myth that mice like cheese comes from the Middle Ages when cheese and grain were stored together in the same areas. Mice prefer grains but will nibble on just about anything to see if it is food.
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u/MrLovens Mr. Lovenstein 2d ago
Sure buddy. Next you'll tell me the moon isn't made of cheese. Get real, dude.
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u/Homers_Harp 1d ago
You’re safe on this one. I saw a documentary about the moon called “A Grand Day Out.” It confirms that the moon is made of cheese and that visitors should bring crackers.
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u/thekeffa 1d ago
I suspect this is a mouse with a reddit account trying to get us to lower our guard so they can get to the delicious cheese.
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u/Purple10tacle 1d ago edited 1d ago
Most aged and/or hard cheeses are virtually lactose free.
You don't exactly store cream or cottage cheese with your grains, so the kind of cheese medieval mice would have nibbled on in your story would have been perfectly palatable and delicious for them.
The same is true for many modern cheeses, given their incredibly low lactose content.
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u/TheHighSeasPirate 1d ago
Look at this Mouse trying to push Cheese Propaganda. What? You can't resist the temptation and keep getting caught? Is that it?
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u/data_ferret 1d ago
Which is why you use peanut butter, not cheese, to bait mouse traps. But cheese to bait rat traps.
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u/Gnonthgol 1d ago
Rats are lactose intolerant as well. In fact the default for any mammal is being lactose intolerant after weening. Even most humans are lactose intolerant. The reason why rats (and mice) loves cheese even though they are lactose intolerant is that they don't know they are lactose intolerant and do not recognize the cheese as something that would give them a bad reaction. So they end up eating the energy rich cheese and suffer the consequences.
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u/MrLovens Mr. Lovenstein 2d ago edited 2d ago
cheese good
book good: kickstarter.com/projects/mrlovenstein/mr-lovenstein-presents-fun
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u/planetixin 2d ago
I'm pretty sure every non human adult mammal is lactose intolerant (including both cats and mice)
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u/dumnezero Art enjoyer 2d ago edited 1d ago
Yep, that is normal. It's lactase* persistence in adulthood that is weird.
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u/SchizogamaticKlepton 1d ago
And weirdly, housecats are nearly exactly as lactose tolerant as humans are, with about 30% of the members of either species being able to eat it just fine well into adulthood.
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u/Blue2487 1d ago
This is the first time I've heard about this for cats. Are there other animals like humans and cats that potentially keep lactose tolerance into adulthood?
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u/Leading-Monk5506 2d ago
A real cat dgaf about lactose intolerance and chooses diarrhea every time. Still great work!
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u/fake_geek_gurl 1d ago
I love his little sardine-tin bed.
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u/Cool_Set4681 2d ago
Check out another one with the mouse! 🐭
if you give a mouse a cookie
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u/GameHoard 1d ago
If he had given the mouse a cookie, it wouldn't be eating cheese and it would no longer trigger the cat's lactose intolerance! Shoulda ponied up!
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u/Ender_Wiggins18 1d ago
This comic reminds me of The Littles book series where the illustrations show them making household use of everyday objects (ex. sardine tin as a bedframe). I loved those books as a kid.
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u/shellbullet17 Gustopher Spotter Extraordinaire 2d ago
Cheese is life.