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I'd like the chef salad, please, with the oil and vinegar on the side, and the apple pie a la mode.
— When Harry Met Sally... • 1989
Behind the line
What it means
Our interpretation.
Sally's order is the perfect set-up for Harry's verdict that she is high maintenance who thinks she is low, and the film pays it off years later in a restaurant scene about her dressings on the side. It is a loving joke about people who know exactly what they want, and it is why 'on the side' is now a punchline and Sally a patron saint of difficult diners.
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In context
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In When Harry Met Sally... (1989), the film's two leads, new University of Chicago graduates, are driving to New York in 1977 when they stop at a diner. Harry orders a number three, and Sally orders the chef's salad with the oil and vinegar on the side and the apple pie a la mode. She then keeps going: the pie heated, the ice cream on the side, strawberry if they have it, whipped cream only if it's real, and nothing at all if it comes from a can. Harry watches in amazement.
Sources (2)
- Springfield! Springfield! transcript: When Harry Met Sallywhole page, diner orderReference checked
- Wikipedia: When Harry Met Sally...PlotReference checked
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