Let's Have Cake!

I was listening to one of my favorite podcasts today, Buzz Out Loud, and someone called in asking to explain the saying, "You can't have your cake and eat it too." I also never really understood what this meant and thought it was a stupid saying because, I can have cake AND eat it to. What it REALLY means is, once you eat your cake - you don't "have" it anymore. It's now gone. The confusing part of this saying is the word "have" because in the English language we say we are going to have cake - which means eat cake. So if you want to continue to possess (have) your cake, you can't eat it. It now makes sense!