I'd rather have cake

This is sometimes used among the asexual community expressing that some on the ace spectrum would rather have cake over sex. Choosing to have both have cake and eat it too.

Random person: want to do it
The asexual: nah I'd rather have cake.

I'd rather have cake by I like cake🏳️‍🌈👩🏻💜🍰 June 5, 2021

you can't have your cake and eat it too 

This phrase is easier to understand if it is read as "You can't eat your cake, and have it too". Obviously once you've eaten your cake, you won't have it any more. Used for expressing the impossibility of having something both ways, if those two ways conflict.

He works so hard to pay for that fancy house of his that he never has any time to stay home and enjoy it.

Yeah, you can't have your cake and eat it too.

you can't have your cake and eat it too by bmiles October 1, 2006

have her cake and eat it too 

Once eaten, you no longer have it. Like having money and spending it all. Also, in marriage, security vs. freedom - if one cheats, they lose their security of keeping their mate.

She's married to Bob but seeing Bill. She can't have her cake and eat it too.

have her cake and eat it too by Viola F. Blanton May 28, 2006

Have your cake and eat it too 

When someone wants all of the benefits of a relationship without the commitment. Typically used when seeking sexual favors

Billy has been trying to get with Sally for the past few months, but she won’t sleep with him unless they’re in a relationship. She told him, “ you can’t have your cake and eat it too”

Have your cake and eat it too by Brownedbanana May 7, 2020

Also, I have this cake 

A phrase popularized by Paul Saunders of Loading Ready Run in the video 3 PS3s. It is used after telling someone what you have/have accomplished to add insult to injury. You do not need to produce a cake, only something edible (such as pie, as detailed by Morgan vanHumbeck in Computer Envy)

Person 1: Man, I can't get Recon in Halo!
Person 2: Well, I have Recon Armor. Also, I have this cake.

Also, I have this cake by K2Fer October 9, 2009

"you can't have your cake and eat it too" 

You can't keep your old love while trying out a new one.

"you can't have your cake and eat it too" trying to hold onto something - an uncut cake - while enjoying eating it.

"you can't have your cake and eat it too" by labkat January 12, 2009

I want to have my cake and eat it too. 

When you have exactly what you want in terms of a relationship with one person. Yet you find yourself wanting that little extra something from another.

Just like wanting to be with two people.

Tiger Woods response to the media after they found out about all of his affairs, "To the public I'm sorry, but you know I, just like most men, I want to have my cake and eat it too."

I want to have my cake and eat it too. by The Cake. July 20, 2011