It's to show either that you don't care if people are in the shit, or how they get out of it.
It can also be used to show that you don’t understand much about people’s shitty situation.
Both meanings can be used together, to mean that you don’t understand much about their shitty situation, you don’t care to understand it, and you don’t care how they get out of it either.
Where this came from:
A French writer called Rousseau wrote that a great princess once said, more or less, that if you have no bread, there's always cake instead.
When she says "cake", don't think birthday cake. Think pastries and cakes that come in squares that you can slice, which a basically just sweet bread.
Think of a posh French princess in a carriage that's going through peasant land in order to get to the castle. They have to stop for a minute, so the peasants start to approach, carrying bread baskets. The princess asks what they want. She's told they need bread, because they don't have any. And this is where she says the line. But you can interpret it in several ways:
1. She's never seen poor people before, and she's ditzy:
"Well, what I would do is just have cake instead, so why don't they just do that?"
2. She's never seen poor people before, and she doesn't care (whilst applying makeup):
"Oh well. Can't they just have cake instead?"
3. She knows they are poor, and she's being a complete bitch, almost making a joke (staring out the window):
"Oh well, there's always cake."
It can also be used to show that you don’t understand much about people’s shitty situation.
Both meanings can be used together, to mean that you don’t understand much about their shitty situation, you don’t care to understand it, and you don’t care how they get out of it either.
Where this came from:
A French writer called Rousseau wrote that a great princess once said, more or less, that if you have no bread, there's always cake instead.
When she says "cake", don't think birthday cake. Think pastries and cakes that come in squares that you can slice, which a basically just sweet bread.
Think of a posh French princess in a carriage that's going through peasant land in order to get to the castle. They have to stop for a minute, so the peasants start to approach, carrying bread baskets. The princess asks what they want. She's told they need bread, because they don't have any. And this is where she says the line. But you can interpret it in several ways:
1. She's never seen poor people before, and she's ditzy:
"Well, what I would do is just have cake instead, so why don't they just do that?"
2. She's never seen poor people before, and she doesn't care (whilst applying makeup):
"Oh well. Can't they just have cake instead?"
3. She knows they are poor, and she's being a complete bitch, almost making a joke (staring out the window):
"Oh well, there's always cake."
The insurance companies will suffer? Good. Let them eat cake.
Profits are down? Well, err... Let them eat cake?
Profits are down? Well, err... Let them eat cake?
by ExpertContributor May 4, 2018
Get the Let them eat cakemug. Ved: Why does that guy, Delroy, always stink
ADon: Because after he has sex with a dude, he also eats munches their cake too
Ved: What a disgusting, cheek busting cake muncher
Adon: Stay away from that creep
ADon: Because after he has sex with a dude, he also eats munches their cake too
Ved: What a disgusting, cheek busting cake muncher
Adon: Stay away from that creep
by BirkbeckPHDUM October 15, 2018
Get the Cheek busting cake munchermug. A good thing that is temporary; "easy come easy go"; A quickly fading opportunity; The "window of opportunity";
(also) easy to do; not a problem; simple; uncomplicated
(also) easy to do; not a problem; simple; uncomplicated
This job offer is a "cake and ice cream" type thing, and may not last long.
Its "cake and ice cream" for now, later I will slide you the whole enchilada.
I ran through the test like "cake and ice cream".
You shouldn't sweat and stress it, its "cake and ice cream".
Its "cake and ice cream" for now, later I will slide you the whole enchilada.
I ran through the test like "cake and ice cream".
You shouldn't sweat and stress it, its "cake and ice cream".
by roachgnarly November 23, 2013
Get the Cake and Ice Creammug. Light pubic hair on fire with hand sanitizer. Then You take frosting freshly scooped from a chocolate cake and clean the anus with it. Then, you rap your dong with bacon and do a reverse clockwise spin while thrusting into her anus. While hitting a banjo with a stick in the middle of a warehouse surrounded by chained platypus with ski masks.
"Did you try the California Beef-Ritual last night?"
"She was impressed by my California Beef-Cake Ritual performance."
"She was impressed by my California Beef-Cake Ritual performance."
by LinSanity77 November 20, 2018
Get the California Beef-Cake Ritualmug. 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.
by I like cake🏳️🌈👩🏻💜🍰 June 5, 2021
Get the I'd rather have cakemug. by herb villified May 6, 2009
Get the winkin pink brownie cakemug. by Scott April 22, 2004
Get the Bo-Bo Cakesmug.