![]() ![]() ![]() The singer is sent for popcorn, and when he returns, he finds his date, Edith, in the back with Kate and the other guy. ![]() ![]() The trouble started at the drive-in: “You were kissing on Kate/ She wouldn’t let you go/ I looked at Edith, started feeling bold/ I found your big hairy hand holding on/ to the hand I was trying to hold/ You can’t have your Kate and Edith too.” The song is about two guys who go on a double date with Edith and Kate. The source of the confusion is a 1967 song from the country and gospel group The Statler Brothers that cleverly made a pun of the proverb. ‘Kate and Edith Too?’ It don’t make no sense.” Some Twitter users claimed the proverb was really, “you can’t have your Kate and Edith too.” One user was incredulous: “So the saying is really you can’t have your Kate and Edith too? I know I ain’t the only one saying, ‘you can’t have your cake and eat it too.’” Another: “How am I just now learning this at 23?” Another: “It’s definitely the cake one. The popular English proverb is “you can’t have your cake and eat it too,” which means, according to the Cambridge Dictionary, “to have or do two good things at the same time that are impossible to have or do at the same time.” The shorter version would be “you can’t have it both ways.” In October of 2020, Twitter lit up after people discovered they’d been misquoting a popular idiomatic proverb all their life. ![]()
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