Cobb salad

Or cobb sal·ad

[kob sal-uhd]

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noun

a salad of lettuce, chopped chicken breast, bacon, cheddar, avocado, tomato, and hard-boiled egg, typically with a blue cheese and vinaigrette dressing.

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Word History and Origins

First recorded in 1945–50; named after Robert Howard Cobb (1899–1970), U.S. restaurateur and owner of the Brown Derby restaurants

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Members parked on the street, bathroom access varied court by court and there was no spot to grab a cobb salad afterwards.

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Enjoy them as is for a quick, on-the-go breakfast, toss them into a Cobb salad, mash them into egg salad, slice them into homemade ramen or add them to fried rice.

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Most restaurants sell a cobb salad or some variation of such where eggs and bacon are always the main ingredients.

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The salad is blessedly free of hard-boiled egg, a welcome development in the Cobb salad sphere I hope to see repeated elsewhere.

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No matter how stupendous your Bolognese or homemade Cobb salad is, it won't taste that great if your finger is bleeding under the table, right?

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