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Hold the chicken
You people get all crazed about Bresticle Day or Cocksickle Day or whatever, and the rest just all goes to hell.
We were just talking about this scene at work yesterday.
Hold the chicken.
LOS ANGELES - Actress Lorna Thayer, the waitress who memorably refused to let Jack Nicholson order toast in the 1970 movie “Five Easy Pieces,” died June 4 at the Motion Picture and Television Fund retirement home after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease. She was 85.
She often was cast in movies credited only as “flower vendor,” “warden” or “suntan lady,” although she co-starred in the 1956 horror cult favorite “The Beast With a Million Eyes.”
It was her testy exchange with Nicholson’s character, Bobby Dupea, that made movie history.
The trouble starts when Dupea tries to order wheat toast, which isn’t included with the omelet he wants. After trying repeatedly to get around the diner’s “no substitutions” policy, he finally tells Thayer’s increasingly annoyed waitress to bring him a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast and to hold the butter, the lettuce, the mayonnaise and the chicken.
When she asks him sarcastically, “You want me to hold the chicken, huh?” he replies, “I want you to hold it between your knees” and sends everything on his table crashing to the floor.
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