My parents were strict when it came to what we ate, and believe me when I say it sucked.

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It can be about the most mundane things, like what they ate for lunch, or it can be philosophizing.

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This was in Twitter's salad days, literally, when the most common knock on Twitter was that it offered little more than people boasting about what they ate for lunch.

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It was like finding out what was inside that sausage you just ate.

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Normally, what a worker ate or whether he smoked at home would be of no concern to his boss (unless it affected job performance).

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