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What is eat your food?
To use one's own product or service. Originally applied to software companies using their own software in-house, the meaning can extend to any situation that might impose some burden on customers, clientele, constituency, co-workers, etc.
Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) proposed an amendment requiring members of Congress and their staffs to buy health insurance on the exchanges they are setting up, forcing lawmakers to get insurance the same way some of their constituents will. In some circles, this is known as "eating your own dog food."
-- from electoral-vote.com, 14 Oct 2009
A (historical) example of -not- eating your own dog food would be Microsoft developers using IBM's OS/2 operating system while developing Windows software because it was more stable than their own operating system (Windows 3.1 and Windows 95 at the time).
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Eat your food - what is it?
Not to be confused with being cut or sliced buck fifty, eat your food is a slang phrase meaning to be stabbed once or repeatly in anger with a shank, knife, filed toothbrush or any other sharp object with the intent to kill.
If I catch you looking at me like that again, I'm going to make you eat your food.
What does "eat your food" mean?
nigga i will eat ur food