Yes you may say it is in your stomach but soon you may go to the bathroom and now where is the candy? My friend when you eat it, do not expect to be able to see it or feel it OK.

Another vies is of course do not expect something for nothing. Everything comes at some cost. Everything is give and take.

There are so many applications to this statement but they all center on the two sides to a coin. You can not see the heads and the tails on a coin at the same time if the coin is laying on a flat surface/ Thus you must choose one side or the other/

It basically means that you can’t havethe best of both the worlds or lets say you can’t have two birds in your hand , you have to give up on something to get the other. Consequences in life are not always so favourable , you always need to put in some effort , labour or hard work to get the desired results. So to make a cake and eat it to means you can’t have luck favoured you so much that you get whatever you desire without putting in an aiota of struggle in for it

Comedian George Carlin once critiqued this idiom by saying, “When people say, ‘Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too.’ What good is a cake you can’t eat? What should I eat, someone else’s cake instead?”. Of course, Carlin’s critique does not apply to the original, correct version (eat your cake and have it too).

The phrase’s earliest recording is from 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 (where the clauses are reversed) is a corruption which was first signalled in 1812.

Comedian George Carlin once critiqued this idiom by saying, “When people say, ‘Oh you just want to have your cake and eat it too.’ What good is a cake you can’t eat? What should I eat, someone else’s cake instead?”. Of course, Carlin’s critique does not apply to the original, correct version (eat your cake and have it too).

a mother could say this to her child who wants a new bike and already has one in good shape….meaning he cant have both