Last night I was sitting on the sofa at home, watching So You Think You Can Dance…they were announcing the Top 20 that will be on the show. I was snacking on some pretzels and mustard, and when I was done I set the bowl on the little table in front of me and continued watching the program.

Lasher started wandering around pestering me, but then he spotted the small dish of yellow mustard sitting on the table in front of me. He gave it a few sniffs, and I thought, “he’s going to back off quickly from the smell” because usually the cats don’t like things with strong smells. But he didn’t.

He put his face right down into the dish and started licking the mustard. I was in shock. I said “David, look quick!” and we both laughed as Lasher licked it a few more times and then decided he’d had enough. He then licked the air for a while, and I was sure the mustard was going to come right back up…but turns out he liked it. He even went back to have more until I took the bowl away.


So I did a little hunting around about cats and mustard, and I found two very interesting references to share with you…

First, a joke: How do you make a cat eat mustard?

Second, a He-Man episode that never happened.

* Mustard image from Wikimedia Commons