Long since, logical debate besets this phrase. Phrase finder puts it at 1546, attributing its provenance to Englishman, John Heywood. I do have a dating fetish.
I see no problem with "have one's cake and eat it too" - necessary to have a cake to eat it. One can buy it, eat it. Or bake it, eat it. Even bum it, eat it. You may have noticed a pattern. Got to have it before you eat it. Simply sequential. Or if you buy now, eat later -- inter-temporal. I learn that Ted Kaczynski used the original and confounding (as in title) phrase in his letter, which helped trace his identity. That phrase befuddles me. So I quit, but not before I celebrate the sine qua non for this posting, the classic sibling game for cake division.
Two siblings are left with a quarter slice of a cake. Who gets how much? The smarter of the two comes up with this, "One cuts, the other picks".
The result is clean. The one choosing to cut would make it squarely (not an apposite word, I realize) equal. Else the other would choose the bigger chunk.
Love cakes.
"qu'ils mangent de la brioche" - Marie Antoinette
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