On 08/01/15 21:56, Cheryl wrote:
> On 2015-01-08 3:45 AM, Peter Moylan wrote:

>> Any good wine will go with any good cheese. Heck, if you're in the right
>> mood then even cheap cask wine and mouse cheese are OK. I will concede
>> that it can be important to have the right kind of biscuits to
>> complement the cheese.
>
> "Mouse cheese"? A new term to me. When I was a child, my mother always
> had "rat trap cheese" in the house, although we never trapped rats with
> it. It was a cheap orange cheddar. Or cheddar-type. I haven't seen it in
> ages.

It's pretty obvious that your rat-trap cheese is the same as my mouse
cheese. Not identical, perhaps, but carrying the same meaning of the
cheapest cheese you can lay your hands on.

(Not counting that artificial sliced cheese. Rats and mice won't touch
that.)

As a child I believed that the holes in Gruyère and the like were
nibbled out by mice.

I've learnt something else since growing up. There's no point in putting
cheese in mouse traps and rat traps. They prefer a piece of bread.

--
Peter Moylan http://www.pmoylan.org
Newcastle, NSW, Australia