They say, “You can’t have your cake and eat it”
First of all, who are ‘they’?
There’s a secret gang of officials somewhere making up all of these well known phrases that just aren’t accurate known only as ‘they’
Not being able to have or own cake and eat it too just poses a real problem.
People will stop buying cake. I’ve yet to meet anyone who only buys or makes cake for the sole purpose of looking at them.
Manufacturers will be over-run with useless,unusable cake.
Cake food mountains will follow.
Even if cake was distributed to those less fortunate, it still can’t be eaten.
You can’t have your cake and eat it.
How is the problem of cake mountain to be solved?
Some sort of government intervention and think tank will be needed to come up with ideas on how to get rid of the excess.
- Perhaps re-purpose a percentage of Victoria Sponge as medically approved lumbar support and municipal play area surfacing.
- Ask dentists to use Cadbury’s Mini Rolls as the medical packing swabs during procedures.
3. Battenburgs as an alternative to kerb stones, garden furnishings and block pavers for the modern driveway.
4. Perhaps see an end to the current social housing crisis with a mass of cake-condos?
No. Wait, that’s already been tried. It didn’t end well for Hansel and Gretel – but in all fairness that was before the 1989 Childrens’ Act.
5. Perhaps the committee could persuade folk to use cake as an alternative to furniture and decorative ornaments for the home and business? I can see Ikea rammed to the rafters with flat pack stollen.
Or how about,
Give your cake to someone else and then eat it off their plate?
If you don’t own the cake then according to ‘they’ you can eat it.
Simple.
Cancel the committee, have a piece of cake.
Problem solved.
Tim Willow’s Additional Thoughts
This is a guest post by Grace Nomel, who posts on Thursdays.
I am still not confident to know whether I can eat cake or not.
Grace is an honorary member of my old village.
This was cute Gracey 🙂 Good job! Just as nonsensical as Tim’s stuff, LOL!
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I’m a rebel ‘til I die…
Probably from eating prodigious quantities of cake…
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as Marie Antoinette said ‘let them eat cake’ I don’t know why everyone got so mad – cake’s really nice 🙂
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Stuff them. Let me eat cake. Me me me me me.
Greed is good and cake makes it even gooder. Never trust anyone who takes the smallest slice, you don’t need to be around people like that.
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Brilliant 🙂 I grant your wish. Darn. I’m not a genie.
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#2 solution? Genius! It might actually get me back into the dentist after 30 years of avoidance.
As for cake? It’s mine and I’m eating it. Get in the way of that and I will stab you with my fork.
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Beautiful.Actually if you makea big Xmas cake you csm have it for a year and gnaw bits off it.Cake like that keeps because of sugar and maybe brandy?
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Perhaps it’s a quantum cake – it both exists and doesn’t exist at the same time, and only exists when observed.
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Perhaps it’s an irish quantum cake. When you obeserve and want it to be a cake, it’s never a cake. It’s only when you don’t want it to be a cake it’s a cake.
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You need to try and trick it then, observe it through a mirror and it might reverse the process.
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I’m on it!
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The problem lies with the ownership of the cake (to have)
You’re offered cake, you take a piece, the cake belongs to you.
You ‘have’ cake.
Solution:
Pass your cake to another person – (within striking distance – important)
You no longer ‘have’ cake –
This leaves you free to lean across and enjoy eating cake while they’re still holding it.
(Is why striking distance is important factor)
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You can eat your cake and have it, too; but, you may not want it…
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…put cake in an airtight storage container. Just incase you change your mind and want cake later on.
Never say “never” – which is difficult without actually saying never… you think?
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If it’s an opaque container does it become Schrodinger’s cake?
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If it meets the criteria of quantum superposition then yes.
Don’t really care whose cake it is,
Just so long as they sit next to me and I can lean across to eat it 😀
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You either know where the cake is or if it has raisins… but not both…
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