"there's a saying"

[Mark A. Mandel]

>  Re: The Data Quality Act
>  ... No, Windows' GUI was probably written in VB, not least because
> internally at Microsoft there's a saying that developers should "eat their
> own dog food ...
>  comp.programming - Jul 19, 2002 by Edward G. Nilges

At Dragon Systems in the 1990s we called it "eating our own cooking". That
is, using the product in our work.

-- Mark A. Mandel
[This text prepared with Dragon NaturallySpeaking.]