What a bloody stupid saying ive always the point in having a cake and not being able to eat it?!!Well, i was in the pub the other day and overheared an old chap saying to his chum "You cant have your cake an hape-nee"(half penny). Amazed at what i,d heared, i asked about what he,d just said,,he told me that the origional way of saying it was as he had said it, but over many years its meaning had been changed,, for what ever reason,, to what it is today. So now it all makes perfect sence
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