Hold the Chicken

In Five Easy Pieces (1970), Jack Nicholson asks for a side of wheat toast in a roadside diner. The waitress refuses: “No substitutions.” “Only what’s on the menu.” “We don’t have any side orders of toast.” “I don’t make the rules.”

He then orders a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, without butter, lettuce, mayonnaise or chicken. The waitress: “You want me to hold the chicken, huh?”

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