Meaning of eat one's own dog food | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To use products or services one is selling internally, in order to understand their limitations.
   slang
2. To use or consume the economic goods or services that one is producing; to be part of a closed household economy.
   idiomatic

Examples

“AOL was signing up members at a furious rate, in part because it provided a better user experience than Juno, and we didn't understand that, because we didn't eat our own dog food.”

“As with most Microsoft product teams, we eat our own dog food.”

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