Cook, but don't touch.

Capture Date	:	10:55, Nov 26, 2003
Notes	:	I have often pondered who on earth coined the expression "he wants to have his cake and eat it" as a bad thing. I mean what is the point of having cake and not eating it? Anyway, my latest pondering led to this little story.
(C)	:	Copyright Michael Lawrie, 2003. All Rights Reserved.

From:	Tank	(12:09, Nov 01, 2006)
Wouldn't having a cake and eating it constitute eating the same cake twice at the same time? Or consecutively? Maybe you throw up, and eat the digested remains of said cake. The mysteries this universe carries, oi vey.
From:	Alex	(23:07, Sep 21, 2007)
Once he eats his cake, it's gone. His hands are empty. He no longer has it. So the expression means that he wants two contradictory things; you can't have it both ways.