Guy Pouring Olive Oil On The Salad Meme Template
Know Your Meme documents this as the “Lidl Oil” object-labeling meme. On January 3, 2019, Redditor ReadManualBeforeUse posted a Lidl advertisement in r/croatia with a Croatian caption about loving Lidl’s oversized “mumbo jumbo” packages; the image depicts olive oil poured from a giant container onto a salad. The original joke is about oversized packaging, and subsequent object-labeling edits repurpose the image to show an excessive input applied to a comparatively ordinary recipient. In the active template, the three text regions label the source/container, the person doing the pouring, and the salad/recipient. Keep the exaggeration playful and legible.
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What the Guy Pouring Olive Oil On The Salad meme means
Know Your Meme documents this as the “Lidl Oil” object-labeling meme. On January 3, 2019, Redditor ReadManualBeforeUse posted a Lidl advertisement in r/croatia with a Croatian caption about loving Lidl’s oversized “mumbo jumbo” packages; the image depicts olive oil poured from a giant container onto a salad. The original joke is about oversized packaging, and subsequent object-labeling edits repurpose the image to show an excessive input applied to a comparatively ordinary recipient. In the active template, the three text regions label the source/container, the person doing the pouring, and the salad/recipient. Keep the exaggeration playful and legible.
A smiling man in a light blue shirt tips an enormous clear container of olive oil over a bowl of salad. The container fills the left side, the man is on the right, and the salad sits near the bottom center. The image is an advertisement still with no baked-in meme caption. Three editable text fields align with the giant container (left), the man pouring (right), and the salad receiving the oil (bottom).
How the joke works
This is a three-part object-labeling layout, not a top/bottom setup. Slot 1 labels the giant container or excessive thing being applied. Slot 2 labels the person or agent applying it. Slot 3 labels the salad or recipient getting the treatment. The relationship should read as one agent overdoing a specific input on a smaller or simpler target. The humor comes from the disproportionate amount or intensity; keep the three labels connected and in their corresponding image regions.
- Left/container label: name the oversized input, resource, or excessive thing being applied.
- Right/person label: name the person or agent applying that input.
- Bottom/salad label: name the modest recipient, task, or target receiving it.
Caption examples
- A 40-MINUTE VOICE NOTE
- ME
- A YES-OR-NO QUESTION
The speaker applies an outsized amount of explanation to a tiny prompt, and each label matches the container, actor, and recipient roles.
- A SIMPLE QUESTION
- ME
- A 40-MINUTE VOICE NOTE
The excessive response and small prompt are reversed relative to the image’s input and recipient roles.
Situations it fits
- Someone overwhelming a simple request with an elaborate response
- A person putting far too much effort, detail, or enthusiasm into a small task
- An excessive quantity of a product or feature being applied to an ordinary use
- A humorous mismatch between an overpowered input and a modest recipient
When this format does not fit
- Do not swap the input and recipient labels; slot 1 is the thing being poured/applied and slot 3 receives it.
- Do not make any of the three labels unrelated to the same act of overdoing something.
- Do not label the man as the target of the oil; he is the person pouring it.
- Do not repeat the source caption as if it were baked into the image; this asset has no baked-in caption.
