Originally Posted by LAX_Esq

On this note, I've always thought "have your cake and eat it too" is a really dumb proverb, and I despise it. Obviously "have" is a synonym for eating, and having cake and eating cake is referring to the same. The proverb is trying to teach the lesson that you might only be able to have one of two different options. But having cake and eating cake are the same option.

If having cake somehow means keeping the cake and not eating it, cake is just a bad example to teach the proverb's lesson . What else is there to do with cake besides eat it? You can't invest it or save it.

So this dumb proverb essentially uses an example of cake that doesn't fit with the lesson it is trying to teach. Anyone else feel this way?