Have your cake and eat it too

oh oh h h hh the stomach pain ah oh wow. I went out with my friends to lunch and I overate, I am a diabetic and should have known better. I stopped when I was full,so in a sense I ate my cake but I still thought oh this is a fish platter and that cannot run my blood sugar up. wrong I could not have all that was on my platter and have normal blood sugar. oh oh my tummy, my
blood sugar went up to 275 that is way way too high, 120 might have been okay. so either I eat less and have lower blood sugar
or I eat my cake, in this case a whole platter of shrimp, mussels
and two enormous breaded rolls of some kind of fish, anyway it is still splashing around in my tummy. I am now thinking even if I
had had one piece of cake it might not have done as much damage as that whole platter of food. Too late smart. Had I stayed stopped when I felt full I would have been fine, but I kept picking at things while we were laughing and having so much fun
and suddenly I felt almost ill. too much food.

Let them eat cake! That's what I would prefer...no wasting in my house! LOL....

It depends on what kind it is.

well, personally, i would eat it. Only if i baked it for the first time. i mean, i bake cakes and pastries and from what i have learned in an anime i watched, and it really is true, it asks a question that (paraphrased)goes something like "To whom do you first give a delicious-looking cake/pastry?" You see, the background would be when a father came home to tell that question to his children who are already famished, he ate the food in front of them and not even gave them something to eat.

You see, the answer to that question would be "yourself." why? because the food only looks delicious and you have not even tasted it yourself. But when you have already tasted it and know that it really is delicious, then you would not hesitate to give it to the person whom you would like to eat it. Well, the moral of the whole show is that for a baker, like me, its always better if you eat the cake rather than give it to others without tasting it or letting it just spoil.

Well, a long explanation and story, but to make it simple, just eat the cake - especially if you baked it yourself. Tastes differently from the ones you see and buy from stores.

I prefer to look at this differently--if you eat the cake, then no one else can have it.
I'll take dark chocolate with fudge frosting please.

I can have a cake temporarily and store it in the fridge for a day or so and then I'll be able to eat it then. ..so technically, I can have my cake and eat it too. See, what a genius I am.. ................not!!

I had no idea that phrase went back that far. I thought maybe a baker made it up

Depends on what sort of cake it is.

If it is strong, strong, ginger, I'll have it regardless.
If it is wickedly chocolate, I'll have it too
If as above, with ginger added - great! Serve it up!

If it is a rich, dark fruit cake, I'll have it ... if it is moist.

If it is any other sort of cake ... who made it? ... maybe ...

Have your cake and eat it too?
Well, now, if I am really craving a ginger cake but I don't have one, I can sit here and drool. However, if I get up and bake one, in about an hour I'll have my cake. Then Dawn comes knocking on my door and I'm not going to share my precious cake, so I leave it to cool. When Dawn has finally gone, I'll go back to my cake. I have my cake. I eat it too!

Hi dawnald,



I agree, I rather take my cake and eat, sponge ones, plain one and chococlate ones, which one do you like? I have the sponge cake with cream in them, lol!



Tamara

I would eat it too, after all what’s the point of having the cake if you are not going to enjoy it? I heard on the radio a few months ago that the original saying was “Have your cake and eat it too” Don’t know if that’s true but I guess it means the same thing, can’t have it both ways.