Right In Front Of My Salad Meme

Right In Front Of My Salad Meme
The Meaning of This Salad Meme Is Way Raunchier Than You Might Expect

August 8, 2017

by Brinton Parker

First Published: August 3, 2017

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The internet has a new favorite meme, and it's not one that's easily explained. If you've been on Twitter or Tumblr recently, you've likely started to see an image of an exasperated woman eating salad , with the caption: "Are you serious? Right in front of my salad?"
The clip (and accompanying quote) originated from an NSFW scene in an adult film. To make a long story short: a woman enjoying a bowl of salad realizes that two men in her kitchen are engaging in bedroom activities and questions why they'd do it in front of her salad. The situation has quickly transformed into a meme used to express indignation, and the actress's annoyed facial expression has gone fully viral.
Naturally, due to its origins, usage of the meme ranges from highly risqué to totally innocent and suitable for work based on context . . . but good luck explaining it to anybody who asks what it means. In fact, your best plan of action might be to send them the link to this post and let them find out the rest for themselves!
We've gathered a few work-appropriate examples of the meme in action here, but be forewarned: you might not look at your salad the same way again.

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*First Published: Aug 5, 2017, 6:00 am CDT

Posted on Aug 5, 2017 Updated on May 22, 2021, 9:36 pm CDT
Back in the ’90s and early 2000s, people would react to a shocking or offensive display with the sassy phrase, “Oh no you didn’t!” That’s somewhat dated now, though, and in need of a good replacement. So thank goodness for gay pornography, which just gave us one of the best internet catchphrases of the year: “Are you serious?! Right in front of my salad?”
The quote comes from Private Lessons 3 , a gay porn compilation released in late July on men.com. In the relevant scene, a man has hired a chef to make a special salad for a woman. While she eats the meal, the man casually penetrates the chef from behind. The salad-eating woman can’t believe how disrespectful these guys are being. She exits in a huff, without even finishing her food.
Here’s the original video clip, which is probably not work-safe, although you can’t actually see any genitals in it.
Taken out of context, “Right in front of my salad?” can be used to express indignation at basically anything. There’s an entire Twitter moment full of people using it this way.
Are you guys really going to start talking about back to school? Are you serious? Right in front of my salad?? pic.twitter.com/UFPmnJqGES
— Jamie Ridolfo (@JamieRidolfo) August 2, 2017
so y'all gone be misogynistic? right in front of my salad? pic.twitter.com/dKRbEmVEhp
— saint swazi (@swazikills) August 2, 2017
why are you being so rude? right in front of my salad? pic.twitter.com/29jf2ucI8g
— ceo of ceos (@Michael5SOS) August 3, 2017
when there's a fight in the cafeteria "right in front of my salad" pic.twitter.com/BzP7KJVjB5
“Right in front of my salad?” is the latest in a series of porn scenes that have made the jump to safe-for-work(ish) memes. Porn star Riley Reid revived the trope earlier this month with the line “ put it back in ,” which proved surprisingly funny in a non-porn context.
Before that, the Tori Black line “it’s so fucking big” was a meme, and so was a cropped photo of Elsa Jean performing fellatio, captioned, “What you see vs. what she sees.”
Meme makers have long understood the comedic potential of porn: bodies smushing together is inherently hilarious, and so is a lot of the over-the-top dialogue in these scenes. But because Facebook and Instagram have become primary meme vectors, and neither site allows nudity, converting porn jokes into shareable, safe-for-work formats is a savvy way to go viral.
“My salad” takes this principle to the next level: sure, the image of the woman’s angry face is funny, but the dialogue can also stand on its own. A good catchphrase, especially one about something as innocent as salad, works on any platform with no fear of censorship.
Jay Hathaway is a former senior writer who specialized in internet memes and weird online culture. He previously served as the Daily Dot’s news editor, was a staff writer at Gawker, and edited the classic websites Urlesque and Download Squad. His work has also appeared on nymag.com, suicidegirls.com, and the Morning News.
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*First Published: Aug 7, 2017, 1:59 pm CDT

Posted on Aug 7, 2017 Updated on May 22, 2021, 9:24 pm CDT
In early August, the internet was buzzing over a hot new scene from gay porn site men.com. But no one was talking about the dudes starring in the flick—they were talking about the girl who stole the scene while eating a salad .
In the preposterous plot of the scene, a husband had hired a chef to make his wife a special salad, and then he banged the chef in their kitchen. “Are you serious?! Right in front of my salad ?” she said. The line is now iconic, but who’s the actress?
She’s a professional model who goes by Nikki V., and claims credits on BET and in Esquire . Nikki is well aware she’s becoming internet famous, and she seems to be having fun with it.
“I have been getting a lot of interviews and my following has been going up,” she told the Daily Dot. “I love it because people are so funny and positive. It’s a great thing.”
“Everyone is calling me an icon and a salad queen,” she wrote on Instagram, “I am so thankful i’ve been laughing at some of the things people have been sending me. can’t wait see what my next scene is going to look like…”
https://www.instagram.com/p/BXaow4lj-Vv/?taken-by=thenikkiv
It seems we can look forward to seeing more of Nikki on men.com. She added the hashtags #men and #yesiamgoingback.
Nikki told the Daily Dot she knew exactly what she was getting into when she signed up for the salad scene.
“I submitted to the gig on craigslist and they replied back to me. I wasn’t shocked or anything because the ad was very clear about what they were looking for,” she said via email.
In fact, it seems like Nikki knew her line was going to be famous more than a month before the video came out. She posted a photo of a salad on Instagram June 5 and captioned it… “#rightinfrontofmysalad.”
Jay Hathaway is a former senior writer who specialized in internet memes and weird online culture. He previously served as the Daily Dot’s news editor, was a staff writer at Gawker, and edited the classic websites Urlesque and Download Squad. His work has also appeared on nymag.com, suicidegirls.com, and the Morning News.
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Last weekend, a new meme arrived. It swept across Tumblr before arriving on Twitter and other social media platforms — and although it might not look it at first glance, it is very, very NSFW. Exactly what does “right in front of my salad” mean ? It’s largely being used as an expression of disbelief or indignation, but its origins lie in somewhere many folks are finding somewhat unexpected: Porn.
According to BuzzFeed, the meme is from a porn flick produced by Men.com entitled Private Lessons Part 3 . Jake Porter and Jaxton Wheeler are the featured performers;in the scene, a man has hired a chef to cook a meal for his wife, only to discover upon the chef’s arrival that he is, in fact, a naked chef. (Literally. Not figuratively. ) The chef makes a salad, and then the two men start having sex behind the kitchen counter. The wife enters, sits down, and starts eating the salad — and then realizes that her husband and the chef are gettin’ it on behind the counter. The moment of realization is pretty classic: “You don’t… have a shirt on,” she says, eyes narrowed. “Wait a minute — do you have pants on?” And then, the proverbial penny drops: “Are you guys f*cking? Are you serious? Right in front of my salad?! ”
Know Your Meme reports that Private Lessons Part 3 was first uploaded to Men.com on July 23; the clip with the salad line, however, didn’t start circulating widely until July 29. That was when Tumblr user boymercuryx uploaded GIFs of it, and, well… the rest, as they say, is history.
As I noted earlier, the phrase has now been co-opted as a way to indicate indignation or righteous disbelief, often (but not always) about legit social and political issues — and, of course, this form of it is rapidly making its way around social media. Here is a small selection of things people are using it to comment on:
And many, many more. Seriously, you guys. It’s all over Twitter. All you have to do is search for “right in front of my salad,” and you will see all there is to see.
On a more serious note, I’ll be honest: I find the meme a little problematic, for a few different reasons. For one, it’s funny, sure — but it’s kind of unfortunate that the woman who should be getting all the credit for it, isn’t. Jake Porter told BuzzFeed that the scene did have some structure to it, but that the lines themselves were largely improvised — including the now-infamous salad line — but we don’t know her name. I haven’t been able to locate a cast list for Private Lesson Part 3 (and believe me, I’ve tried ), and Portertold BuzzFeed that he unfortunately doesn’t remember her name. “She was an extra, local to the West Hollywood area where we filmed the scene.” She’s mostly being called “an anonymous woman” in reports — which feels kind of like another version of "Some Guy's Wife Wins Olympic Medal" to me.
Update: She's been identified! Her name is Nikki V .
Earlier: The flip side of that, of course, is that she may not have wanted to be a meme at all; as Twitter user Saint King (@ThatsJrad) observed:
Not that porn is anything to be ashamed about — but it's a fair point.
I’m also coming off of this one having just read Lauren Michelle Jackson’s piece on digital blackface in reaction GIFs over at Teen Vogue, which makes a lot of really important points as well.
So… yeah. This one is more complicated to me than it might seem on the surface. For whatever that’s worth.
Regardless, it doesn’t look like “right in front of my salad” is going anywhere anytime soon; it strikes me as possibly having the same kind of lasting power as Salt Bae . Do with that what you will.
Just, y’know… maybe not right in front of my salad.

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