Fancy a nibble?

'The mice don’t care what colour the insulation is, the mice are chewing live cables,' is the theory of Steve Messenger, at Reuters. 'The valve amp uses DC power and red is the colour normally used for the primary DC supply.'
Steve has mice who chew the cables providing power to his pond pump. 'My assumption is that the mice find electricity tasty. I guess that the DC voltage in the valve amp was not high enough to kill them, whereas mice only get to chew a little bit of mains cable before discovering the deadly attraction.'
If anyone has an adventurous colleague, perhaps you could perform a quick experiment and tell us what electricity tastes like.