Poll of the Day > You can't have your cake and eat it too. Can someone explain this

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FatalAccident
08/04/21 2:22:16 PM
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Either Im a big dummy or its a stupid fucking way of constructing the sentence

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Veedrock-
08/04/21 2:26:09 PM
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You can't save your money and spend it too.

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Jen0125
08/04/21 2:32:46 PM
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If you eat it, you don't have anymore cake. So you can either HAVE cake or you can eat it.

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LinkPizza
08/04/21 2:36:24 PM
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Jen0125 posted...
If you eat it, you don't have anymore cake. So you can either HAVE cake or you can eat it.

This
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adjl
08/04/21 2:37:00 PM
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Jen0125 posted...
If you eat it, you don't have anymore cake. So you can either HAVE cake or you can eat it.

That.

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Mead
08/04/21 2:38:03 PM
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You wouldnt download an eat

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PunishedOni
08/04/21 2:47:45 PM
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ok so why the fuck would i want to have my cake if im not going to eat it. what's it for then

do i just get to look at it. why would i bake a cake just to look at it when i could play mario 64 and see mario's cake instead

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SpeedDemon20
08/04/21 2:48:58 PM
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FatalAccident posted...
its a stupid fucking way of constructing the sentence

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SilentSeph
08/04/21 2:49:57 PM
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I asked this question here years ago. Someone said a more clear analogy would be 'You can't save your dollar and spend it too'

Edit: Someone already covered this lol

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mooreandrew58
08/04/21 4:16:12 PM
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SilentSeph posted...
I asked this question here years ago. Someone said a more clear analogy would be 'You can't save your dollar and spend it too'

Edit: Someone already covered this lol

That is a far superior of conveying the idea the saying is trying to get across

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Veedrock-
08/04/21 4:37:25 PM
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SilentSeph posted...
I asked this question here years ago. Someone said a more clear analogy would be 'You can't save your dollar and spend it too'

Edit: Someone already covered this lol
Pretty sure that was also me

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streamofthesky
08/04/21 4:56:06 PM
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Or just simply, "you can't have it both ways."
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FatalAccident
08/04/21 4:59:32 PM
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oh ok makes sense

I always thought they meant "have" it as in "eat" it. Like you can't eat your cake and eat your cake too.

Guess the "you can't spend your money and save it too" explanation makes more sense

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Mead
08/04/21 5:00:54 PM
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SilentSeph posted...
I asked this question here years ago. Someone said a more clear analogy would be 'You can't save your dollar and spend it too'

Edit: Someone already covered this lol

in all my years I never knew it meant that

i thought people were saying that if you picked your own cake for your party or wedding or whatever, that only everyone else could have some

which I know to be a lie

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mooreandrew58
08/04/21 5:08:55 PM
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Yeah it's kinda dumb cause you gotta have the cake in order to eat it.

That kinda applies to the money one too but people do save money where as nobody has a cake simply to have a cake

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Kanatteru
08/04/21 5:48:18 PM
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wasn't the saying originally "you can't eat your cake and have it too" and it got switched around at some point? because that actually makes way more sense

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mooreandrew58
08/04/21 5:50:34 PM
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Kanatteru posted...
wasn't the saying originally "you can't eat your cake and have it too" and it got switched around at some point? because that actually makes way more sense

It still doesn't make sense in that why wouldnt you eat your cake

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Kanatteru
08/04/21 5:51:49 PM
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you are eating your cake. but you can't have a cake if you've eaten that cake

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Mead
08/04/21 5:52:04 PM
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Kanatteru posted...
wasn't the saying originally "you can't eat your cake and have it too" and it got switched around at some point? because that actually makes way more sense

we dont know

our schools are just broken. We watch reality TV

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wwinterj25
08/04/21 5:56:13 PM
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What's good for the Goose is good for the Gander.

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SilentSeph
08/04/21 6:00:19 PM
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mooreandrew58 posted...
It still doesn't make sense in that why wouldnt you eat your cake
Maybe it's a display cake for a bakery

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Metalsonic66
08/04/21 6:00:28 PM
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I forgot how to idiom

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wolfy42
08/04/21 6:18:31 PM
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First in reponse to Mead, the cake is always a lie.

Second, if you eat SOME of the cake but not all of it, you can have it and eat it to.

So again, it's a lie.

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SKARDAVNELNATE
08/04/21 7:39:25 PM
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When I'm having cake, I'm also eating it. I don't know why people find that so difficult to do.

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myghostisdead
08/04/21 7:56:10 PM
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You can't have your Kate, and Edith too.

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Metalsonic66
08/04/21 8:02:19 PM
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myghostisdead posted...
You can't have your Kate, and Edith too.
I smirked

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Zareth
08/04/21 9:55:03 PM
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Why would you want cake if not to eat it though

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DANTE20XX
08/04/21 10:09:27 PM
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Zareth posted...
Why would you want cake if not to eat it though
That's what I always wondered.

I want to have it....so I can eat it.

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LinkPizza
08/04/21 10:16:02 PM
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SilentSeph posted...
Someone said a more clear analogy would be 'You can't save your dollar and spend it too'

I guess you could always say "You can't save your cake and eat it too"
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ReturnOfFa
08/04/21 10:59:31 PM
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Cause I bake the cake, then take the cake
And eat it, too, with my crew while we head state to state

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Metalsonic66
08/04/21 11:19:32 PM
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DANTE20XX posted...
I want to have it....so I can eat it.
Like a potato chip

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helIy
08/04/21 11:20:36 PM
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what if i only ate half of the cake

then i would have ate my cake while also still having it

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LinkPizza
08/05/21 12:01:50 AM
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helIy posted...
then i would have ate my cake while also still having it

But only half. I believe they warn the whole thing, and to eat the whole thing, as well
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ArvTheGreat
08/05/21 12:07:49 AM
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Why wouldnt anyone not eat the cake

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ArvTheGreat
08/05/21 12:09:04 AM
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Thats like saying you cant have a car and drive it too like you wouldnt eat anyone elses cake thats stealing so of course its your cake

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ArvTheGreat
08/05/21 12:10:10 AM
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LinkPizza posted...
I guess you could always say "You can't save your cake and eat it too"
Arv Saves his dollar so he can spend it

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helIy
08/05/21 12:58:34 AM
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LinkPizza posted...
But only half. I believe they warn the whole thing, and to eat the whole thing, as well

it's my fuckin cake i'll do what i want to it

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Kanatteru
08/05/21 1:19:42 AM
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Mead posted...
we dont know

our schools are just broken. We watch reality TV

its not like I learned about that in school

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LinkPizza
08/05/21 1:55:56 AM
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ArvTheGreat posted...
Thats like saying you cant have a car and drive it too

No. That's quite different. After you drive it, ou still have the car... Unless you total it/give it away/etc... Like when I drive my car to work, I still have it after I get to work. But once you eat the cake, it's gone... Two different things...

ArvTheGreat posted...
you wouldnt eat anyone elses cake thats stealing so of course its your cake

Unless you are eating it at a birthday party, or other kind of party. Maybe you just ended up eating so many slices that you eat the whole thing. But it wouldn't be considered stealing in that case...
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FatalAccident
08/05/21 2:21:08 AM
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A car isnt consumable Arv lol

cake or money is

but yeah the phrase is stupid cos I can eat my cake and save it for later really so Ive eaten it and I still have it

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Sahuagin
08/05/21 6:04:21 AM
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Zareth posted...
Why would you want cake if not to eat it though
you could eat it now, or you could it eat later; you could give it to someone else, or you could trade it to someone else.

the term for this in economics is opportunity cost. if you spend a resource one way, you forego all of the other ways that you could have spent it. so, the cost of that option is actually more than just the value of the resource. and not having spent the resource yet is a considerably more advantageous position to be in than having spent it.

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Sarcasthma
08/05/21 6:21:16 AM
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If you have a cake and then you eat a little of the frosting while adding some new frosting to the cake and then you put the cake in a box and then you close the box and then you eat the box, can you be sure that you ate all of the original cake?

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Krazy_Kirby
08/05/21 9:00:48 AM
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just eat someone else's cake
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adjl
08/05/21 10:51:13 AM
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Mostly, it boils down to "once you eat your cake, you can't eat it anymore."

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Krazy_Kirby
08/05/21 11:03:55 AM
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adjl posted...
Mostly, it boils down to "once you eat your cake, you can't eat it anymore."


you could if you regurgitated it
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adjl
08/05/21 11:04:55 AM
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Krazy_Kirby posted...
you could if you regurgitated it

It's not really the same cake at that point. The texture's off and it'll be significantly more sour than it was on the first pass.

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Fierce_Deity_08
08/05/21 1:01:37 PM
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Thats why I usually have a backup cake. Gotta be prepared for anything. (Probably the reason why I always have a bag of Reeses Pieces in case of extraterrestrials.)

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JOExHIGASHI
08/05/21 1:04:26 PM
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Jen0125 posted...
If you eat it, you don't have anymore cake. So you can either HAVE cake or you can eat it.
But I still have it even if I've eaten it

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Firewood18
08/05/21 2:11:53 PM
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I just say let them eat it.

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Muscles
08/05/21 4:47:19 PM
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The way I heard it was that "have" in this context means to display/show off your cake

You can't show off your cake and eat it too

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