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

Example Sentences

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

From Salon

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

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

That’s where the Shirley Temple drink comes from, and the Cobb salad.

From Los Angeles Times

“I introduced myself and said, I’d like to be a member of this club; would you sponsor me? And he said, why do you want to be a member? I said it’s because you have a really delicious Cobb salad.”

From Los Angeles Times