Cobb salad

American  

[kob sal-uhd] / ˈkɒb ˌsæl əd /

Or cobb salad

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.

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Etymology

Origin of Cobb salad

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

Example Sentences

If this is up your alley, perhaps this might resonate with you: in culinary school, when making bacon that was going to be chopped and added to a Cobb salad, our instructor actually recommended taking one sheet tray, laying down a sheet of parchment, laying out the bacon end-to-end but not overlapping, and then *topping* that sheet tray with a second sheet tray.

From Salon

Inflation is also making its already premium-priced salads even more expensive, pushing the cost of a Cobb salad to around $14 in Manhattan.

From New York Times

Inflation is also making its expensive lunches even more expensive, pushing the cost of a Cobb salad to around $14 in Manhattan.

From New York Times

Potentially unsafe products include Woolworth’s Chicken Cobb Salad and Coles Kitchen Smokey Mexican Salad marked with specific “use by” dates, food health agents warned.

From Washington Post

A $6.99 mystery bag from the Safeway deli on East Madison Street netted me a single serving and a family-sized serving of chicken Alfredo, a tray of chicken teriyaki with chow mein noodles, four chicken egg rolls, a medley of veggies for stir-fry and a dinner-size Cobb salad.

From Seattle Times