Cobb salad

English

Etymology

Developed by Robert Cobb of the Brown Derby restaurant circa 1937.

Noun

Cobb salad (plural Cobb salads)

1. (US) A salad consisting of iceberg lettuce, watercress, endive and Romaine lettuce with tomato, bacon, chicken, hard-boiled egg, avocado, chives, Roquefort cheese and a red wine vinaigrette.
   • 2010, Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad, Corsair (2011), page 180:

     She ignores: olives, blue cheese, boiled eggs, bacon and avocado – in other words, all of the parts of the Cobb salad that, technically speaking, make it a Cobb salad.

Translations

salad

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 科布沙拉 (Kēbù shālā)

• Finnish: Cobb-salaatti
• French: salade Cobb f
• Russian: please add this translation if you can
• Spanish: ensalada Cobb f