You are what you eat...right?

[swkstudent]

So how can some people eat chitlins or chitterlings?

[cloudsoup]

i've never exactly understood the phrase, "you are what you eat."
obviously, you don't physically become a chicken (or chitlin in
this case). however, it makes sense that whatever you eat is
absorbed by your body and it is essentailly a PART of you...
atleast for a little while. and especially if it turns to fat.

people eat all kinds of things, though. something gross to one person
is delicious to another 

[ShadeTree]

If that phrase was meant to be taken literally, I would have turned into about 100+ things already. At the moment, I'd be a bowl of macaroni & cheese. Yesterday, I would have been a pepperoni pizza. 

[swkstudent]

If that phrase was meant to be taken literally, I would have turned into about 100+ things already. At the moment, I'd be a bowl of macaroni & cheese. Yesterday, I would have been a pepperoni pizza. 

yeah I was joking, but I meant if people were to eat chitlins a lot they might start to smell like it. That's what some people say anyways lol.

[MessiahMews]

If that phrase was meant to be taken literally, I would have turned into about 100+ things already. At the moment, I'd be a bowl of macaroni & cheese. Yesterday, I would have been a pepperoni pizza. 

LOL!  I think it's meant to be taken figuratively. 

Otherwords, what you are is the end result of the nutrition that you had given yourself, whether from food, vitamins, minerals, etc...

[kqa]

I saw a funny pic on Facebook of a fat kitty with the caption, "I'm allergic to food. I turn to fat." That's pretty much it unless you avoid excessive carbs and fatty foods!

[Phx0808]

I must be a fruit or a vegetable. Take your pick!

[alwaysinstyle]

i agree with cloudsoup

[Snoozey]

It's harder to think about people eating dogs or drinking mouse blood wine 

[vicogden]

I've been called everything from "chicken" to being "fat as a cow", so I guess you are indeed what you eat!  Of course I've also been called a wimp and a dork, but I've never consumed either, so maybe not?!  Hmmm....