# Can self-raising flour kill mices? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [October 21, 2012, 1:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-self-raising-flour-kill-mices/638413 "2012-10-21T13:17:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2012, 11:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-self-raising-flour-kill-mices/638413/21 "2012-10-23T23:37:23Z")
Regurgitation is when my girl cat eats too fast and suddenly spits up half chewed food, which creates a second breakfast for the boy cats. A form of vomiting is when the DLH starts yowling for a long time, then keeps heaving until a lump of fur in a pool of bile from his stomach comes out, or digested food. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-self-raising-flour-kill-mices/638413/22 "2012-10-24T20:15:54Z")
I hates mices to pices. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-self-raising-flour-kill-mices/638413/23 "2012-10-24T20:37:09Z")
> [@Michael63129](#): > > I thought it was “[mice](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mouse)” (without an “s”), although [this page](http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/the-plural-of-mouse.aspx) says mouses can be plural for a computer mouse (I prefer mice for either though). A cube of cheese no larger than a die May bait the trap to catch a nibbling mie. ``` Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary. ``` ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-self-raising-flour-kill-mices/638413/24 "2012-10-24T20:52:00Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I thought it was meeces! Brian Regan has the [answer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWzYaZDK6Is). ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-self-raising-flour-kill-mices/638413/25 "2012-10-24T20:59:54Z")
The old formula I heard was you mixed cement with cocoa and leave little piles of it around. The mice would smell the cocoa and think food. They’d also smell the cement but they’re used to that smell and don’t associate it with poison. So they’ll gobble down the powder. Then once it gets inside them, the cement hardens up and kills the mouse. I have no idea if this actually works and I really doubt you’ll see Adam and Jamie trying it out. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-self-raising-flour-kill-mices/638413/26 "2012-10-24T22:36:25Z")
> [@Michael63129](#): > > So, their esophagus is not a “one way value”; they just can’t forcefully vomit. What a relief! “A large rodent just regurgitated on the dining room table!” “As long as it didn’t forcefully vomit, I’m okay with it.” ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 10:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-self-raising-flour-kill-mices/638413/27 "2012-10-24T22:42:00Z")
This is an excellent thread useful information about rodent regurgitation and pluralization. ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [October 24, 2012, 10:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-self-raising-flour-kill-mices/638413/28 "2012-10-24T22:55:18Z")
> [@gazpacho](#): > > This is an excellent thread useful information about rodent regurgitation and pluralization. Ignorance that I didn’t even know I had, successfully fought! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-self-raising-flour-kill-mices/638413.md?page=1)