Today’s Dilbert cartoon is titled Eat Our Own Dog Food, and has the following dialogue between his Pointy-Haired Boss (PHB) and Dilbert:
PHB: We need to eat our own dog food.
Dilbert: You mean we need to use our company’s
products as if we were customers?
PHB: I’m not sure what I mean. I once heard our CEO say
the dog food thing and I liked how wise it sounded.
Dilbert: It means we should use our own products.
PHB: That doesn’t sound right. Why would we use our products
when we can use good ones?
Dilbert: Because…it will make our products better over time.
PHB: To be honest it made more sense
when I thought it meant dog food.
Wikipedia has an article on Eating your own dog food, which suggests a better phrase would be Drinking Our Own Champagne. When using an idiom, you also need to get the spelling right. On April 19, 2010 I blogged about Right out of the shoot? Another type of YAKWIRM! It should be the rodeo inspired phrase ‘Right out of the chute.’
The image of a dog food sign by Carol M. Highsmith came from the Library of Congress, and an image of a champagne bottle came from Wikimedia Commons.
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