> "eating your own dogfood" because it was "gross

Interesting perspective. I watch a YouTube channel of a hunter who routinely cooks the same meal for himself and his dog, and even feeds his dog from the skillet where he cooked the meal. Many practical reasons for that but also the dog being the main tool in hunting and getting that food in the first place.

▲ manarth 6 hours ago | parent [-]

    > "a hunter who routinely cooks the same meal for himself and his dog"

"Dogfood" is used to differentiate from "food", "steak", "meat", etc.

The youtube channel you describe is showing a dog being fed stereotypical cooked "human" food, rather than a human eating "dog" food.

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reverence23 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Thank you for clarifying, English is not my native language. In the end I guess different dogs get different quality food.

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speff 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

From my understanding, it's generally for health purposes (though the convenience doesn't hurt). An example my vet provided is that the level of sodium consumption needed by humans is way too high for dogs.

	▲	manarth 5 hours ago \| parent [-]
		There's an economic benefit: in the UK (and many other countries), ingredients which are not "fit for human consumption" (and might otherwise be thrown away) can be processed into pet food. Much commercial dog-food is made with ingredients which aren't fit to be consumed by humans.

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Ylpertnodi 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

There was a BBC early-morning breakfast tv slot in which a dog was presented as 'vegetarian', until test time...the dog (given free choice between two bowls of food placed on the studio floor) went immmediiately for the meat dish.