Why do people say, "You can't have your cake and eat it too"? Why would someone get cake if they can't eat it?

Answer 1

I can have my cake and I share it with my family. Those who say it have no clue on how to make things work for them.

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Answer 2

To wish to have one's cake and eat it too (sometimes eat one's cake and have it too) is to want more than one can handle or deserve, or to try to have two incompatible things. This is a popular English idiomatic proverb, or figure of speech.

The phrase's earliest recording is from 1546 as "wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?" alluding to the impossibility of eating your cake and still having it afterwards; the modern version (where the clauses are reversed) is a corruption which was first signalled in 1812.

Comedian George Carlin once critiqued this idiom by saying, "When people say, 'Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too.' What good is a cake you can't eat? What should I eat, someone else's cake instead?" Of course, in the original correct form (eat your cake and have it too), Carlin's critique does not apply.

Answer 3

The first answer sounds right. I've thought of it this way: you have a pretty cake you like to look at/smell, whatever. Once you eat it, it's gone, and you don't have it anymore. Thus, you can't have/keep it and eat it, too. I think it just means you have to control your desires and appetites and decide what you really want since you can't have everything.

Answer 4

That is another way of saying that you can have too much of a good thing.

Answer 5

old folk saying....means don't get greedy.

Cakes are made to be shared around. "Your" cake is shared amoung a bunch of people.

Answer 6

PU$$Y

Answer 7

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