text: This is a saying that has actually been misquoted from the original, rendering meaningless. \n\nIt was originally "You cannot eat your cake & have it too." meaning that once the cake was eaten it was gone, which made a lot more sense. \nThe accepted version of it that "You cannot have your cake & eat it too" does not make any sense at all to me either since if you have cake, why shouldn't you eat it?.