Egg salad

She ordered a egg sandwich with extra egg salad. It was such a turnoff watching her eat it. It was all over her face and falling out of the sandwich. I think at that moment her husband lost all respect for her & realized what a slob his wife is. It was discusting!

If you watched her eat it and can't figure out what was wrong with it you'd probably eat egg salad with it all over your face too and think its fine.

It just shows how shallow men can be---I mean really, so the love of his life gets a little messy with her food, big deal! He did communicate to her that she had food around her mouth area, but the look he gave her was enough to make her feel totally pathetic and worthless.
Anyhoo!! It IS a comedy and a very good one. In fact The Heartbreak Kid is in my top 50 favorite movies list.

btw, I LOVE egg salad sandwich and, coincidently, had actually planned on having one today.

Lighten up. It was a great scene.

"That was no excuse for the husband to think about leaving his wife. All it took was communicating to her on how to better her habits."

Holy cow. Well...OK, maybe that works out better in your house than it would in mine, or in anybody else's I've ever been in.

I mean, part of what makes this film border on greatness is the fact that you try to be judgmental about the guy, but then, who wants somebody who's such a slob, who doesn't seem to care about her appearance or manner, who seems to care only about telling him incessantly how much she just wuuuuvs him? It's not like the Lenny character invented the notion of self-respect being attractive or utter dependency being unattractive--or, for that matter, how people too often make themselves attractive when they're on the prowl, and then fall apart once the "catch" is made. But then when you try to understand _that_, you think, why the hell did he go along with the marriage in the first place? And you have to feel sorry for the woman, at least a little bit. Every character has conflicting aspects about them in that way, which I guess is why I consider this one of the great black comedies ever--and the more you look into it thematically, the blacker and more disturbing it gets.

It was a brilliant scene, so gross. LOL.

I just watched it too. And I kept thinking how well did they know each other before getting married?
It's like they were strangers. But I guess even back in 1972 people still got married because it was what you did, it was expected, so marrying someone you barely knew might have been common since you never knew if anyone else would ever come along.