Jakes' Cake

In which Jake learnt that most valuable of lessons in life...
you can't have your cake and eat it too!



DYK: This idiom was first recorded in the English language in 1546 as "wolde you bothe eate your cake, and have your cake?" (John Heywood's 'A dialogue Conteinyng the Nomber in Effect of All the Prouerbes in the Englishe Tongue') alluding to the impossibility of eating your cake and still having it afterwards; the modern version being a corruption, first signalled in 1812.