2007-02-09 01:47:45 · 16 answers · asked by Ivor Hugh G.Rection 6 in Food & Drink ➔ Other - Food & Drink
If at first you don't succeed, try, try and try again!
Reminds me of my brother who was in hospital for three weeks with no smoking. On coming home he had a ciggy, then another. They made him feel sick but he persevered with them...
2007-02-09 02:29:09 · answer #1 · answered by Who Yah 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People buy cakes in order to eat them. The having of the cake is an obstacle to the eating, however it is easily overcome by doing the eating.
2007-02-09 09:51:00 · answer #2 · answered by Dharma Nature 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You could have a cake and give it some else to eat.
You'll feel good for giving it away and you won't get fat eating all those cakes!!
2007-02-12 08:52:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
From "Random House Dictionary of Popular Proverbs and Sayings" by Gregory Y. Titelman:
"You can't have your cake and eat it too -- One can't use something up and still have it to enjoy. This proverb was recorded in the book of proverbs by John Heywood in 1546, and is first attested in the United States in the 1742 'Colonial Records of Georgia' in 'Original Papers, 1735-1752.' The adage is found in varying forms: You can't eat your cake and have it too. You can't have everything and eat it too; Eat your cake and have the crumbs in bed with you, etc. ..."
2007-02-09 09:53:40 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is because I can`t have my cake and eat it that I eat a lot of cakes for comfort.
2007-02-12 14:03:25 · answer #5 · answered by simonsd25 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because just having cake can be enough most of the time.
2007-02-09 13:34:54 · answer #6 · answered by Robert S 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
So that they can give it to people who can eat it! Like thier other halfs so then they dont think that they cant have thier cake and eat it.
Plus i guess it would depend on what time of cake it was.
2007-02-09 09:57:23 · answer #7 · answered by zara 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the reason why people still buy cakes because based on traditions in occations like birthdays, cakes are not absent on the table. it symbolizes something for the celebration.
its a tradition.
2007-02-13 04:23:59 · answer #8 · answered by leachim 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if you buy a cake you "have" it, until you eat it and don't have it anymore. so you can't eat the cake and still have it in your possession (unless you count food that you are digesting as "possessions"). see? you can either have it to look at or have it to eat, but not both.
2007-02-09 09:52:44 · answer #9 · answered by SmartAleck 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if you gave your cake to someone else they would then have the cake and they could then eat it if they wanted to
2007-02-09 10:32:46 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋