Cobb salad

or cobb sal·ad

[ kob sal-uhd ]

noun

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of Cobb salad¹

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