# Rat in coffee. Woe is me. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 7, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830 "2005-02-07T17:00:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![LeeshaJoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/8e8cbc/32.png) [@LeeshaJoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LeeshaJoy)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 3:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/21 "2005-02-08T03:48:00Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > And in case anyone’s wondering…I made myself a new cup of coffee. 😃 Did you try the old coffee first to see what the flavor was like? Who knows, rat-infused coffee might be the next hipster trend! ---
**Author:** ![Jenaroph](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e8c25b/32.png) [@Jenaroph](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jenaroph)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 5:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/22 "2005-02-08T05:46:57Z")
> [@LeeshaJoy](#): > > Did you try the old coffee first to see what the flavor was like? Who knows, rat-infused coffee might be the next hipster trend! Why not? Some people might like rat in their coffee; others already like [coffee in their rats.](http://www.ravensbrew.com/NewFiles/kopiluwak.html) Yes, I know it’s not a rodent. The wordplay was irresistable, though. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 5:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/23 "2005-02-08T05:59:50Z")
Let me not to a rat in coffee dunk’d Admit impediments. Rat is not rat Who does not do whatever it has thunk’d Immediately, whate’er may come from that. O no! she is an ever-crazy pet That looks on beverages and longs to swim; She thinks herself biscotto, and gets set To climb the mug and plunge her headlong in. She is a fool, for furry head and butt Are swiftly soaked and full of coffee stains That alter not with all her grooming pains But still persist long past the fateful splut. If this be error, and upon me shown, I never writ, nor rat in mug was thrown. ---
**Author:** ![andygirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a9adbd/32.png) [@andygirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/andygirl)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 6:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/24 "2005-02-08T06:37:24Z")
I sympathize. My Ahser has a drinking problem and a drug problem. > **[EXS](http://exs.cx)** > > Votre magazine de presse > **[EXS](http://exs.cx)** > > Votre magazine de presse ---
**Author:** ![Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9a140/32.png) [@Miss\_Purl\_McKnittington](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miss_Purl_McKnittington)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/25 "2005-02-08T06:43:19Z")
Rattie! Rattie! wading light In my coffee mug this night. What inspired your rodent brain To stress me out and cause me pain? ---
**Author:** ![Terrorcotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/26 "2005-02-08T14:27:59Z")
I had a white rat as well, her name was Ratphrodite. ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/27 "2005-02-08T15:42:31Z")
> [@andygirl](#): > > I sympathize. My Ahser has a drinking problem and a drug problem. > > [http://img210.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img210&image=asherdrinking7yo.jpg](http://img210.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img210&image=asherdrinking7yo.jpg) > [http://img210.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img210&image=theaddictweb2hc.jpg](http://img210.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img210&image=theaddictweb2hc.jpg) Awww, what a cute rattie! I guess I’ll post a link to my [girls](http://groups.msn.com/RatsRatsRats/mybeautifulgirls.msnw) as well… (Bettina, Lola, Cookie, & Bettina’s babies :)) ---
**Author:** ![betenoir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/258eb7/32.png) [@betenoir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/betenoir)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/28 "2005-02-08T18:10:42Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > On a side note, my other two rats were _more_ than happy to give Bettina a thorough grooming. :eek: Yeah and then you had two rats who were awake all night! Hope you have more than one wheel 😃 . ---
**Author:** ![photopat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e95f7d/32.png) [@photopat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/photopat)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2005, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/29 "2005-02-08T18:54:24Z")
I saw the title and immediately heard: _Got rat in coffee Got mouse I abuse it Rodentia I feel it nesting Gonna pipe you, pipe you, pipe you to the river._ Sung, of course, to the music of **Brass in Pocket**. ---
**Author:** ![Eyke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Eyke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyke)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 4:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/30 "2005-02-09T16:34:38Z")
> [@andygirl](#): > > I sympathize. My Ahser has a drinking problem Reminds me of my days stationed in the UK. A mouse got into my dorm room and was scurrying around our dresser tops. Attempts to catch it via a wastebasket, a brochure and a dab butter didn’t work. I did notice it seemed interested in the contents of all the sorta empty Bud cans my rooomie left lying around, so I poured a little beer in a rocks glass. The critter just dove in and drank the beer dry. He was just a _bit_ wobbly when he finished and dropped off the dresser and disappeared. Never saw him again, but there was word a mouse was killed in the floor below. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/31 "2005-02-09T19:33:47Z")
Very impressive, **matt\_mcl**. But was the change in rhyme scheme in the third quatrain intentional? If I’m not mistaken, the Shakespearean sonnet pattern would have called for EFEF there, not EFFE. Not, of course, that I could write a sonnet in any mode, of course. So don’t take this too critically. ---
**Author:** ![matt\_mcl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7ab992/32.png) [@matt\_mcl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/matt_mcl)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/32 "2005-02-09T19:59:59Z")
Bugger. ---
**Author:** ![Cockatiel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cockatiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cockatiel)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/33 "2005-02-09T21:21:40Z")
> [@KRC](#): > > I once had a cockatiel in my Malt O’ Meal. > > A couple years later it tried to get into my Frosted Flakes, but since cockatiel doesn’t rhyme with Frosted Flakes I didn’t allow it. I remember that. I really love Frosted Flakes, too. Party pooper 😉 . ---
**Author:** ![Askance](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/askance/32/8281_2.png) [@Askance](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Askance)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/34 "2005-02-10T03:34:22Z")
Rat’s in the glass Alas. With apologies to Gertrude Stein ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/35 "2005-02-10T14:44:57Z")
Awww… what cute ratties. I got enamoured of them last year after doing a bunch of reading online, trying to find a small pet that would work well with my lifestyle. Lola is so cuuuute!!! [This picture is just adorable!](http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0TwAaAyAYbdJhK4ldS1pqtZZdYhNlo9cTptt59pakjg01VG8oylljagTpC2iPjhRcYNXTA4OtpQ3OlDz3D2vyDTCQty2dLp8xcsemYeKs*oB59SzL8N9eYA/Snuggle%20Baby.jpg?dc=4675486822270001490) _dies_ One of the things I love about rats is that they retain a lot of their baby-cuteness even after they’re full grown. I’ve never tried to give any of my fuzzbutts coffee, but one of my girls, Ginger (maybe it’s something about fawns) is a bit of a lush. I let them have a taste of Mike’s Hard Lemonade at my Christmas party, and all of them gave it a taste and wanted nothing to do with it. Except Ginger. Who I had to take it away from of before she guzzled it all down. I don’t let them freerange anywhere but on the floor or the bed, so they don’t get into my lunch or dinner really, but you should see them go apeshit when someone comes in the door with a bag of food with french fries, or when they can smell me cooking. ---
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 3:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/36 "2005-02-10T15:23:10Z")
Please send some espresso over to the SDMB hamsters. ---
**Author:** ![Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/779978/32.png) [@Amazon\_Floozy\_Goddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amazon_Floozy_Goddess)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/37 "2005-02-10T15:30:06Z")
> [@jinwicked](#): > > Awww… what cute ratties. I got enamoured of them last year after doing a bunch of reading online, trying to find a small pet that would work well with my lifestyle. > > Lola is so cuuuute!!! > > [This picture is just adorable!](http://groups.msn.com/_Secure/0TwAaAyAYbdJhK4ldS1pqtZZdYhNlo9cTptt59pakjg01VG8oylljagTpC2iPjhRcYNXTA4OtpQ3OlDz3D2vyDTCQty2dLp8xcsemYeKs*oB59SzL8N9eYA/Snuggle%20Baby.jpg?dc=4675486822270001490) _dies_ One of the things I love about rats is that they retain a lot of their baby-cuteness even after they’re full grown. > > I’ve never tried to give any of my fuzzbutts coffee, but one of my girls, Ginger (maybe it’s something about fawns) is a bit of a lush. I let them have a taste of Mike’s Hard Lemonade at my Christmas party, and all of them gave it a taste and wanted nothing to do with it. Except Ginger. Who I had to take it away from of before she guzzled it all down. > > I don’t let them freerange anywhere but on the floor or the bed, so they don’t get into my lunch or dinner really, but you should see them go apeshit when someone comes in the door with a bag of food with french fries, or when they can smell me cooking. Thanks! 😃 Yeah, Bettina (obviously) likes coffee a bit too much. Cookie doesn’t really care for it, and Lola doesn’t want anything if it’s not chewy/crunchy - that’s why she’s the fat one. LOL. One of my friends used to give his rat a thimble full of beer every Saturday night. Apparently it was his favorite treat. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![butter\_pie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/aca169/32.png) [@butter\_pie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/butter_pie)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/38 "2005-02-10T15:51:29Z")
> [@Amazon Floozy Goddess](#): > > Thanks! 😃 Yeah, Bettina (obviously) likes coffee a bit too much. Cookie doesn’t really care for it, and Lola doesn’t want anything if it’s not chewy/crunchy - that’s why she’s the fat one. LOL. > One of my friends used to give his rat a thimble full of beer every Saturday night. Apparently it was his favorite treat. 😃 I’ve heard of ratties that got into their owners margaritas when their back was turned… I actually was concerned about it, but apparently alcohol in small amounts isn’t dangerous to them. My rats will eat damn near anything… except I have one rat (out of five females) who doesn’t seem to like meat, unless it’s breaded and fried. The others will gobble it down. I usually share a wee bit of whatever I’m eating with them. Rats are the best. I was feeling crappy earlier and laying in bed with Ginger and she ran down under the covers and started tickling my feet with her whiskers. They’re like little puppies that never grow up. ---
**Author:** ![Terrorcotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/39 "2005-02-10T16:59:08Z")
As a kid I had been told to give small rodents red wine if they had respiratory problems. Later in life I liked to indulge them in a drop or two just to see the previously well balanced and fleet of foot totally fall over her own tail. Tipsy rats are hysterical and they don’t vomit on you while professing their love. ---
**Author:** ![Terrorcotta](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/dbc845/32.png) [@Terrorcotta](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Terrorcotta)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2005, 5:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rat-in-coffee-woe-is-me/288830/40 "2005-02-10T17:00:38Z")
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