Big Lebowski Question: Sometimes You Eat the Bar?

[pokey]

"Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes the bar eats you"

I don't get it. What's the bar?

[Raygun99]

"Sometimes you eat the bar, and sometimes the bar eats you"

I don't get it. What's the bar?

It's an exaggerated Texan pronounciation of 'bear'.

[Dizzy Fingers]

It's an exaggerated Texan pronounciation of 'bear'.

Like the one Davy Crockett "kilt" when he was only three. (Although he was Tennesseean, not Texan.)

[CrazyCatLady]

Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear eats you.

It means sometimes you come out on top, and sometimes you lose big time.