"Hasta la vista” is Spanish for “see you later.” “Hasta lasagna” is a jocular saying with the same meaning that has been cited in print since at least 1993.
“Hasta lasagna, don’t get any on ya” is a well-known line from the movie Mission: Impossible (1996). “Hasta lasagna, I got my eyes on ya” was entered in the Urban Dictionary in 2007.
Similar sayings include “Hasta la pasta” and “Hasta la pizza.”
Wiktionary: hasta la vista
Etymology
Borrowed from Spanish
Phrase
hasta la vista
1. See you later.
Google Books
Harvard Business School Bulletin
Volume 69
1993
Pg. 77:
Congrats. Mike, we hope all is going well. If you can, we would love to hear from you. Hasta lasagna! Happy holidays to all of you.
Pg. 158:
Hasta lasagna.
IMDb (The Internet Movie Database)
Mission: Impossible (1996)
Quotes
Jack Harmen: [describing his “special” gum to Ethan in a Prague safe house] Stick of gum, right?
[Ethan shakes his head. Jack demonstrates]
Jack Harmen: Red light, green light. Come up against a lock you can’t pick, you mash them together… *boom*. Hasta lasagna, don’t get any on ya. You’ll have about 5 seconds…
[hands the “gum” to Ethan]
Jack Harmen: Just don’t chew it.
17 February 1997, Pittsburgh (PA) Post-Gazette, “Fixer-Uppers Can Get Help,” pg. B9:
The windows were blown out in the wee hours one July morning in 1973, the result of a dynamite bomb being placed in the back alley called Delray Place. Evidently, somebody had something against a Market Square bar owner. So that somebody made a big KABOOM. Hasta lasagna, don’t get any on ya.
Google Books
Hollywood Station:
A Novel
By Joseph Wambaugh
New York, NY: Hachette Book Groups USA
2006
Pg. ?:
One of the women said something angrily in Arabic, and Farley muttered, “Hasta lasagna to you too. Bitch.”
Urban Dictionary
Hasta lasagna I got my EyEs on yA!!
the affirmation of future meetings perchance to conclude the aforementioned meeting or passing.
see you later
A phrase to say: see you later
That was a nice talk, Hasta lasagna I got my EyEs on yA!!
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by ninjawarriordex August 19, 2007
YouTube
Mission: Impossible: Top 10 Movie Lines
team84
Published on Oct 13, 2015
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0:48 #5 Scene
Hasta lasagna, don’t get any on ya.
Reddit—Jokes
Leaving work, my coworker said, “Hasta lasagna!”
submitted June 9, 2017 by HeroUnit
I replied, “Pasta la vista!”
Above, a 1934 plaque from the Big Apple Night Club at West 135th Street and Seventh Avenue in Harlem. Discarded as trash in 2006. Now a Popeyes fast food restaurant on Google Maps.
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Above, Big Apple Corner at 54th Street and Broadway in Manhattan. Google Maps.
Above, John J. Fitz Gerald, from the Aug. 15, 1931, Binghamton (NY) Press, pg. 14.
Listen to Robert Emmerich introduce "The Big Apple," a hit song from 1937. Music written by Bob and performed by Tommy Dorsey's Clambake Seven with Bob on piano. Lyrics written by Buddy Bernier and sung by Edythe Wright. Audio provided by Dorothy Emmerich.
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