Why do they say "You can not have your cake and eat it to"?

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  • Avant-Garde
    10 years ago | pl

    I know exactly what you mean. I often am puzzled over the origins as well as, sometimes, the meanings of such phrases. Who came up with "kill two birds with one stone" or "no use crying over spilled milk"?
    Was it a psychopath who needed a way to cover up his crimes of serial killing aviaries? Or, was the woman who cried over spilled milk a maid with overbearing bastards for bosses?

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    • robbieforgotpw
      10 years ago | pl

      have you heard the phrase "Franks and beans, Franks and beans?" the origin?

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    • Anime7
      10 years ago | pl

      Perhaps there was a time when mankind had a shortage of rocks, so to increase hunting efficiency and decrease stone usage, we decided to kill two birds with only one stone. And maybe some guy decided to spread the word about this new way of hunting to the next village and so on.

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      • Avant-Garde
        10 years ago | pl

        That seems plausible. They could have made a lot of bird pies from the convenient huntings.

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        • Anime7
          10 years ago | pl

          Is that an actual type of pie?

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          • Avant-Garde
            10 years ago | pl

            I'm not entirely sure. There's something called a "Pie Bird" and there is a very old nursery rhyme called,"Sing a Song of Sixpence" where a king has 24 blackbirds baked into a pie. Shepard's Pie often contains chicken. The only other birds I can image being made into a pie are duck and goose. I think with other types of birds like Pigeons, there's too much of a risk of deadly infections for them to be consumed.

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            • wigsplitz
              10 years ago | pl

              Chicken pot pie? Turkey pot pie?

              Have you ever seen a duck press? Yeah! Duck juice!

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            • Anonymous Post Author
              10 years ago | pl

              Some birds have eaten pigeons. You can pretty much eat anything on this planet aside from thinks like blow fish. You can even eat a snake though I am curious how they do that without getting poisoned. You can eat monkeys and crocodiles and buffalo though a lot of them have gone extinct in most places. I think you could eat something like lions and bears if you were willing to kill it.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      10 years ago | pl

      Well kill two birds with one stone makes sense both metaphorically and literally. No use crying over spilt milk means well it over get on with your life. Generally when someone makes a cake should they not get a piece? Does that make any sense at all? I mean it is only fair right?

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      • Anonymous Post Author
        10 years ago | pl

        *things*

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      • Avant-Garde
        10 years ago | pl

        I doesn't make sense unless of course, the person who made the cake is on a diet or has type 2 diabetes.

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