You cant have your cake and eat it too

'Have' means possess - a pristine, integrated cake which can be sold, traded, shared or eaten. It is an asset. After you eat it, it is no longer an asset. It is just matter for digestion.

Mental Possibilitywhy does the saying, "you cant have your cake and eat it too" make sense? i understand what is INTENDED

Aren't you contradicting yourself here?

ok, this is the best explanation i heard for this statement, however, should it not be siad, if this is the meaning, "You cannot eat your cake and have it too"? Had it been said like that, it would have made total sense to me from the beginning. I think the arrangement of the words dictate the having the cake before eating it.

well, i must beg to differ. i did not say that i understand it, i said that i understand what is INTENDED, and i even capitolized "INTENDED", which means that i do not agree that the words give the intended meaning.
correct, i already knew that "have" does not ean consume, or else, there would be no meaning to the second part, "and eat (i.e. consume) it too".
i think the the other person'

Mental Possibility i would argue that it should then say, "you cannot eat your cake and have (i.e. keep) it too".

Maybe that was the original way of saying it, and people have changed it around since then. Say it the way that makes most sense to you.