4 ms·
sure let’s replace a daily life sustaining activity with a celebratory product total disconnection and bastardization of the point of the phrase rare level of
by parkerhiggins 4y ago
sure let’s replace a daily life sustaining activity with a celebratory product
total disconnection and bastardization of the point of the phrase
rare level of yuck here
- elvis10ten 4y agoWhy did we (as an industry) go with “eat your dog food” instead of just “eat your own food”? I find the former disgusting each time I hear it.
- jsty 4y agoIIRC there was an ad involving a dog food manufacturer feeding their own dogs the food they made. "Dogfooding" then became synonymous with using your own product.
- highwaylights 4y agoYou learn something new everyday I guess. I always thought it was intentionally derogatory in order to make the listener really think hard about what they’re outputting. I.e. what you’re making is bad. It’s going to be bad. Force yourself to use it until you understand why it’s so bad, so that it’ll be as not bad as it can possibly be for the people you’re offering it to.
- blantonl 4y agoI think this term started in the enterprise software space, and was probably coined because subconsciously, enterprise software sales and management people realized that their products were on par with dog food - ground up mystery stuff that is just barely edible except for animals that will practically eat anything. But package it up in nice marketing and sales efforts, and away we go! This is coming from someone who spent WAY too much time in the Enterprise software space.
- scrollaway 4y agoWhy make something up when the answer is a google search away? https://www.centercode.com/blog/dogfooding-101 https://www.centercode.com/blog/dogfooding-101 The sibling comment got it right, it started with a dog food company. Which makes more sense than a company deciding their product is shit, no?
- yourapostasy 4y ago> In 2006, the editor of IEEE Software recounted that in the 1970s television advertisements for Alpo dog food, Lorne Greene pointed out that he fed Alpo to his own dogs. Another possible origin he remembers is from the president of Kal Kan Pet Food, who was said to eat a can of his dog food at shareholders' meetings. From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food#Origin_of_the_term https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food#Origi...