text: does the saying "you can't have your cake and eat it too" bother anyone else? my mom says that all the time and im like yeh i can....i do it all the time yo.......its a dumb saying.....very...very ...dumb...poo on it this is a saying that has actually been misquoted from the original, rendering meaningless.   it 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.  the 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?.