"Schroedinger's Pastry" by Itchy Feet on Tinyview.com
posted by u/tinyviewcomics · 2026-10-24 18:22 UTC
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## Top comments
1. u/Maleficent-War-8429 · 2026-10-24 18:30 UTC
If you eat your cake you no longer have it because you ate it. Seems pretty straightforward to me.
2. u/BearsAreDangerous · 2026-10-24 18:36 UTC
Yes, better phrased by the immortal Ted Kaczynski as "you can't eat your cake and have it too".
Makes it much more clear as eating comes before having in the sentence, implying you want the cake to be uneaten but also to eat it.
3. u/TheDarkNerd · 2026-10-24 18:40 UTC
That sounds like something that would appear in the Unabomber manifesto.
Wait, is my brother Ted secretly the Unabomber?!
4. u/Cyg84 · 2026-10-24 21:44 UTC
5. u/Annie_Yong · 2026-10-24 21:30 UTC
It's not really that ted phrased it that way. The original phrasing was "can't eat your cake and have it". At some point in the 1930-40 period, the "have your cake and eat it" way of saying it overtook the other in popularity.
The Unabomber was just a grammatical stickler who was actually somewhat undone by his insistence on the "correct" phrasing.
6. u/definitively-not · 2026-10-24 22:27 UTC
Wait, that's what led to his undoing? Insistence on correct phrasing? I thought it was mailing bombs to people
Edit: (this was a joke, I know his letters were identified by his brother due to his particular phrasing of things)
7. u/spudmarsupial · 2026-10-24 19:54 UTC
Having is a common way to say using. So having a cake equals eating it and having some wine means drinking it.
8. u/DrMux · 2026-10-24 22:13 UTC
"You can't eat your cake and eat it too"?
9. u/pornalt4altporn · 2026-10-24 20:51 UTC
This is the original shakespeare.
10. u/JM665 · 2026-10-25 00:21 UTC
I bet that guy had a lot of great ideas. I wonder what he’s up to?
11. u/Crafty_Independence · 2026-10-24 18:44 UTC
It is. It comes from people having nicely decorated cakes that are pleasant to look at, but the act of eating them inherently destroys the art.
OP took it too literally
12. u/KerPop42 · 2026-10-24 18:52 UTC
Yep, my wedding cake was this beautiful piece of art where our two favorite constellations, Cassiopeia and Orion, shone through a night sky that looked like water colors, framed by sugar versions of our flower, magnolias.
But, ultimately, it was food. We had to cut it up with a knife or else it wasn't going to be a cake.
13. u/cyankitten · 2026-10-24 20:47 UTC
Sorry if this sounds weird but I kinda want to see photos of this cake now. It sounds amazing!
14. u/deka2612 · 2026-10-24 21:11 UTC
Wow, sounds absolutely amazing!! Please share pictures!
15. u/AbsoluteResolve2026 · 2026-10-24 19:48 UTC
The phrase has been said incorrectly too long.
“You can’t eat your cake and have it, too.”
16. u/HealthyMuffin7 · 2026-10-24 18:40 UTC
Okay, but beyond that. WTF am I doing with a cake if I'm not eating it? Why else would I want to OWN a cake? The french version is "You can't have butter and the money for the butter" which makes a lot more sense to me, cause I can use money for other stuff. A cake is meant to be eaten. I can gift if I want, but then the giftee will eat it. Cause that's all you do with a cake. You eat it.
17. u/KerPop42 · 2026-10-24 18:53 UTC
My wedding cake was a legitimately beautiful piece of art. I'm really glad I live in a time I could take a ton of photos of it before we sliced it into tiny pieces so everyone could have a taste
18. u/XizzyO · 2026-10-24 18:55 UTC
Eat it tomorrow.
You can't eat your cake today, and save it for tomorrow.
19. u/butt0ns666 · 2026-10-24 19:44 UTC
The short answer is that it was referring to a cake that's a work of art like someone already pointed out, but figuratively the thing it's referring to is probably equally fleeting as a cake, you can have a house and live in it, but you if you have food/gasoline/money you use it up to use it at all, so you cant have and and utilize gasoline you have to pick one of those 2 to do when you obtain food/gasoline/money.
20. u/Maleficent-War-8429 · 2026-10-24 18:48 UTC
You admire how nice and fancy it is.