I was taking it to refer to just some amount of possessed cake regardless of its subdivisions, It doesnt strike me as odd to refer to food that way (same as how, if I made you a bunch of french fries, it wouldn’t be terribly unusual for me to ask “do you like it?” while referring to the meal, despite it being made up of many individual units).
But you can’t have cake and eat it too.
I have never understood this saying.
you can’t have your thing if you also eat it (it will be gone inside of you)
But if it’s yours, didn’t you have it?
but it isn’t the thing anymore. so no, it is now something different, while soon to become a poop
Okay. Got it. Thanks!
You can’t eat your cake and have it too.
This is the original, better version
I’ve never understood it the other way around, you definitionally have to have your cake to eat it.
What one wants to do is eat the cake and then still have it…
What if I just take a bite?
I mean, you absolutely can, you just have to make two cakes
it refers to the one cake. “You can’t have a cake and eat another one” would be yours.
But I like your attitude! Can you make me two cakes? I’m totally not going to eat both of them (I am but don’t tell anyone)
Two cakes? Not with this egg shortage.
I was taking it to refer to just some amount of possessed cake regardless of its subdivisions, It doesnt strike me as odd to refer to food that way (same as how, if I made you a bunch of french fries, it wouldn’t be terribly unusual for me to ask “do you like it?” while referring to the meal, despite it being made up of many individual units).