I realize this means you can't have it both ways, but it is still ridiculous. Since when in cake supposed to be not eaten and looked at like a painting? Marie Antoinette did not agree with this -- or at least the person who slandered her didn't. Was the person who made up the famous "Let them eat cake" line of the Austrian queen was secretly part of the "anti-cake eating crowd"? What do the "cake havers" suggest the pastry chefs do to supplement their incomes to make up for decreased cake consumption? Invent nonsensical sayings? Are the "cake havers" freemasons or fascists who wanted to start the French Revolution? Aren't these people guilty of their own dangerous ideology? Aren't they trying "to have their cake and eat it too" by creating chaos at the expense of the sanity of the human race?
2006-06-23 00:08:27 · 12 answers · asked by mouthbreather77 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Oops, eat it too.
2006-06-23 00:21:15 · update #1
I thought the saying meant that you can't have your cake, as in possess it and do with it what you will, and eat it too because logically if you ate it, there would be no cake to have. This implies less that the saying means that your cake is supposed to be looked at like a painting, because I agree that is ridiculous. Again, you cant have something and eat it too because then there would be no having since it would be gone... because you ate it.
2006-06-23 00:18:13 · answer #1 · answered by Scarlet 2 · 10⤊ 2⤋
I agree with you totally and I think you must be studying psychology or related field or need to pretty heavy for this time of morn. Anyway, keep the brain cells working and keep it going on. Like your style.
2006-06-23 00:18:22 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The original expression was:
You can't eat your cake and have it too.
2006-06-23 00:12:00 · answer #3 · answered by Temple 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question made me forget what I once knew.....
You can't possess your cake and eat it too might be the proper expression.
2006-06-23 00:13:26 · answer #4 · answered by crutnacker 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
first let me correct you, the lines are as follows: "you can't have your cake and eat it too" so I don't think this is insane. if anyone is sane they'll understand the depth of the saying, naturally one cannot have it and eat it too, you got it.
2006-06-23 00:17:36 · answer #5 · answered by shankari n 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
What good is cake if you can't eat it?
2006-06-23 00:13:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
All this question did was make me want cake....
2006-06-23 00:11:08 · answer #7 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Damn now i want cake
2006-06-23 00:14:44 · answer #8 · answered by rock_lover69 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NOOOO!!! MAKE THE INSANITY STOP!!!
Oooh... cake!
2006-06-23 00:10:24 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry buddy, I have no idea.
2006-06-23 01:35:30 · answer #10 · answered by Halle 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋