• @[email protected]
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    51 year ago

    “You can’t have your cake and eat it too”. What is the flaming point of having cake if you can’t eat it?

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      1 year ago

      One time I baked a whole entire cake for myself. There was no occasion or anything I just wanted to have a cake and eat it too. It turns out cakes are really big and it’s really hard for a single person to eat a cake faster than it turns all spongy and icky.

    • @Professorozone
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      11 year ago

      OMG. Came here to say that and it was the first one. I especially hate the way people say this as if the person wanting the “cake” was SO ridiculous Like, how dare he!

    • Sal
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      11 year ago

      I think it suppose to mean that you can’t use the cake as decoration after eating it.

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      1 year ago

      I wondered about this for years and years, never understanding, especially, since “having cake” and “eating cake” are used interchangeably. But, I finally figured it out! In this sense, the “having” is equivalent to “keeping” or “being in possession of.”

      Examples:

      • “What’s it like having a Mercedes Benz?”
      • “The Smiths have a very nice home.”

      No eating implied!

      Therefore, the saying is more inline with “You can’t keep (to show off or admire) your cake, and eat it, too.”