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have yours and eat it too.


matmat

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  1. 1. Which?

    • Cake
      21
    • Pie
      9


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matmat: i hate cake. the frosting is hopelessly too sugary imo. ive never eaten cake and thought to myself that i'd make room for a second piece to further judge.

 

rbouskila: pie is perfect for me. you let the fruits shine through and enhance them with ice cream or whipped cream. fruits+sugar=complement amirite?

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Cake, there's even a song about it.

 

And cake is better than pie, you can have just any flavor (my dad made a passion fruit cake to die for) AND you could add filling or frost, to your taste. What else can you ask for?

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The original phrasing was "would you both eat you cake and have your cake?", in that order it makes more sense. Would have been better if "have" had been "keep", but the saying goes back to 1546 and the word "have" might have had a slightly different meaning then.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Have_one%27s_..._and_eat_it_too

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En español hay tarta, torta, pastel. Depende de dónde te encuentres se llamará diferente. El PIE se refiere a un dulce (aunque también lo puede haber de carne o salado) con una capa un poco dura (arriba y abajo) y un relleno, generalmente de fruntas o dulce de frutas. CAKE se refiere a ese dulce generalmente esponjoso que puede ser de diferentes sabores y puede venir con un glaseado (y hasta con relleno).

 

En cualquier caso la discusión inicial se refiere a un dicho en inglés que dice que no se puede tener todo en la vida, es decir, no puedes ser el del cumpleaños y comerte el pastel completo, o algo así. La elección correcta en la encuesta es CAKE, en ese sentido.

 

There is another song which features the phrase (and it's probably more popular):

 

Bob Dylan:

 

(A guiy is strumming the chords over the original BD song, but that's the best I could find in youtube)

 

Ministry's version:

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjGRIWNcZG0

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Yeah, here in England you'd better not order a pie at a restaurant since you can't predict what you will get.

Agree.

 

The risk-free-zone for pie seems to end in Ostend und Calais <_<

And it's worse than that, if you order a mince pie in England, you'll get the standard christmas fare with fruit in it.

 

Order it in Scotland and it will have minced meat in it.

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All these pie votes? People are insane. Just give both to a 1 year old child to find out which is better.

Some of us have more refined palates than an infant

That seems to me like a way to say we spend our whole lives teaching ourselves to like foods we don't really like <_<

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