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[Big-G]

Oh Im sorry. No one told me throughout my 28 years of life on this planet that birthday cakes were not meant for consumption. I will now proceed to stare at it.

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On a serious note anyone else feel like this saying is dumb as fuck? Like, yea yea I get it but why cake?

 

[triplestation]

yeah i always found it confusing

for some reason even wedding cakes aren't meant to be eaten on some occasions

no idea why

yeah pretty stupid idea and pretty stupid saying

 

[Tesseract]

it's eat cake and have it too

 

[haxan7]

let them eat cake

 

[Mistake]

Well I usually can't eat it all myself, so you guys can have some

 

[teezzy]

Happy birthday, OP!

 

[Papa]

After you've eaten it, you no longer have it, do you?

 

[Stiflers Mom]

Never even once I thought about keeping a cake and not eating it.

Is keeping a cake a woman thing?

 

[triplestation]

After you've eaten it, you no longer have it, do you?

uh yeah

it's in your digestive tract

 

[pennythoughts]

It means saving it for later and having it now so it only applies to mutually exclusive outcomes.

Standard birthday/wedding cake is whatever. Don't think I've ever had a piece and wanted more.

 

[Kamina]

My wedding cake was delicious

 

[epicnemesis]

It means saving it for later and having it now so it only applies to mutually exclusive outcomes.

Standard birthday/wedding cake is whatever. Don't think I've ever had a piece and wanted more.

Stop eating sub par cake.

 

[Cunth]

You can't eat your cake and keep the poo

 

[Rest]

The correct way to say it is "you can't eat your cake and have it too." You can have cake, or you can eat cake. Once you eat it, it's gone.

 

[GV82]

I bet it's something to do with peasants from the old days, probably cake was expensive that if they were given a piece by their bosses, they had to go home and give it to their wives & kids to eat but not themselves "You can't have your cake and eat it"

or does it stem from the tradition of taking your Birthday cakes to the workplace and sharing it and you go to take a piece and the Boss goes "You can't have your cake and eat it" another words it's meant for the rest of the office to share.

I don't know I'm just making stuff up.

It's like there's something missing from the sentence, "You can't have your cake & eat it all to yourself, you must share it too"

 

[keraj37]

Cake is a lie

 

[Papa]

Cake is a lie

why you wearing CurryPanda's (RIP) avatar bro

 

[Cunth]

You can't have your currypanda or elektro demon too

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#freebrap

 

[bitbydeath]

And what motherfucker is out their killing multiple birds with stones?

 

[and 3 others]

You can't eat your cake and keep the poo

The deepest of lore...

 

[womfalcs3]

And what motherfucker is out their killing multiple birds with stones?

In the olden days, cletus and company used to throw stones at birds for sport.

 

[flibbertyjibbert]

I had a furious argument with my brother about this

I was like of course you can, you have the cake and eat it - you can't eat it if you don't have it?

He said no the point is once you've eaten it you don't have it any more

I'm like who wants to have a cake and not eat it? if that's what the phrase means it's saying you can't have both X and Y but Y is something you'd never want so OK I'll just have X?

ended in a fist fight

 

[Mihos]

I am more of a pie guy

 

[Birdo]

Step 1. Eat cake to have it.

Step 2. Poop it out.

Step 3. Eat the poop.

Step 4. Repeat Step 2.

You now have the cake forever.

 

[GymWolf]

Lucky for me i don't eat a lot of sweets and i hate birthday cakes, my parents bought this stuff all the time but i just let them and my friends eat it

 

[Chankoras]

Ted Kaczinsky agrees.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

In Italy we say, "You can't have a barrel full of wine and a drunk wife". Makes a little more sense I guess.

 

[DunDunDunpachi]

It confused me as a kid but my eng/lit teacher mom explained that it just means "have" as in "to own". So you can't hang on to your beautifully-frosted cake while also eating it and enjoying it. The eternal tug between the comfort of surplus and the pleasure of consumption.

 

[farmerboy]

In Italy we say, "You can't have a barrel full of wine and a drunk wife". Makes a little more sense I guess.

Was just about to post this, but from our part of Sicily we say "You want your wife drunk and the barrel full"

 

[Deleted member 1159]

I always thought it was more you want to have this pretty cake but also to eat it is to cut it up and destroy it. What didn't make sense to me was why anyone cares about having a fancy looking cake, it's meant to be eaten, but I'm not a girl

 

[Woo-Fu]

It's pretty obvious why it is cake. When it comes to pie there's no question, you're eating it. PIe doesn't get dressed up fancy-like beyond maybe a lattice crust on top and some garnish.

Cake on the other hand? Well, birthday cakes, wedding cakes, etc.

 

[Nester99]

"Let then eat cake" is the goat cake saying.

get with the times plebs.....

 

[V2Tommy]

The expression is backwards in popular culture. When said the right way, it makes plenty of sense. Ain't y'all ever read about the Unabomber? This is the phrase that got him caught.

 

[Nester99]

The expression is backwards in popular culture. When said the right way, it makes plenty of sense. Ain't y'all ever read about the Unabomber? This is the phrase that got him caught.

Good work on saying there is a "right way" then leaving it up to everyone's imagination.

 

[V2Tommy]

Good work on saying there is a "right way" then leaving it up to everyone's imagination.

What? I said it's backwards. "You can't eat your cake and have it, too" is the correct way.

 

[teezzy]

Only kinda cake I really fuck with is carrot cake, and cheesecake.

Best cakes. Everything else is trash tier.

 

[Greedings]

Ok OP, what's your replacement?

Can't have communism and you iPhone too,

Can't have a cup of coffee and not take a shit too.

All lives can't matter and black lives too.

Can't have 60fps and 4k too.

 

[teezzy]

Oh my God



I think I could make this

 

[synchronicity]

Well you can eat a slice and still have it. Debunked.

 

[Kev Kev]

fuck you ill do whatever the hell i want to do with my cake

ill put my nut sack and that cake if i want to

 

[Big-G]

Ok OP, what's your replacement?

Can't have communism and you iPhone too,

Can't have a cup of coffee and not take a shit too.

All lives can't matter and black lives too.

Can't have 60fps and 4k too.

How about you can't have it both ways? Simple and to the point.

 

[Hulk_Smash]

it's eat cake and have it too

This is correct. Most people say it in reverse order. But it makes way more sense as a proverb when you say "eat cake and have it, too."

 

[GAMETA]

uh yeah

it's in your digestive tract

but then it go poo poo

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

You can't eat your cake and keep the poo

You can, it just takes maximum effort.

 

[Greedings]

How about you can't have it both ways? Simple and to the point.

Nah, so boring. Need a bit of colourful language here and there.

 

[Big-G]

You can, it just takes maximum effort.

Put it in a mason jar. Problem solved.

 

[Ikutachi]

 

[Big-G]

If people actually thought poop was "old food" I don't know what to tell them

 

[-YFC-]

The cake is a lie.