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

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2023

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?

From Salon • Aug. 5, 2023

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 • Jan. 19, 2023

Charlie stabbed mindlessly at his corner-store Cobb salad, and by the second time he asked Keith to repeat something he’d just said, Keith’s expression sank into sharp suspicion.

From Slate • Aug. 27, 2022

“But Mom, you can get the salad ...” Which is exactly what Judith did: order the Cobb salad with Caesar dressing.

From "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan