Danger Mouse

Still on the topic of mice, they are to be the food tasters for athletes at the Beijing Olympics. After all, they have had plenty of practice in miscellaneous kitchens around the world.

Chopsticks will be quite a challenge as will the fizzing effects of too many comparatively large prawn crackers. It might be hard to distinguish when a mouse has a resulting upset stomach due to their tiny 'bb gun pellet' like turds. You will need a myopic professor of mouse muck to analyse the samples.

The covering of fur will amply hide any green tinge in the complexion due to general food driven malaise, and there is an unbreachable language barrier when they want to express how they are feeling. I suppose instant death is the only real way the mouse can inform us if food is off, and short of rotten oysters I am hard pushed to think of anything.

Imagine the fall out back here, a slovenly restaurant with hygiene problems arguing that the all too prevalent chef's furry friends are just in training for the Olympics.