Cobb salad

noun

: a tossed salad made typically with chopped chicken or turkey, tomatoes, bacon, hard-boiled eggs, blue cheese, and lettuce and dressed with a vinaigrette

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Fuel up before a hike or paddle with wholegrain pancakes or a spinach and mushroom frittata, or stop by for a late lunch of a big Cobb salad or a quesadilla with artichoke hearts. Jessie Beck, AFAR Media, 1 July 2025 For example, one lunch menu offered the choices of salmon and spinach lasagna, Cobb salad and a BLT sandwich, with soup or salad as the starter. George Varga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 29 June 2025 There are $46 McCarthy salads, which are really just Cobb salads named after a polo-playing millionaire. Perrie Samotin, Glamour, 5 Dec. 2024 Credit for the Cobb salad generally goes to Bob Cobb, owner of the now-defunct Brown Derby chain in Los Angeles. Cnn.com Wire Service, The Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2024 Bring a book, order some rosé and a Cobb salad, and spend an entire day reading in the overwater hammocks, or paddle boarding, snorkeling, and kayaking around the blue water. Lydia Mansel, Travel + Leisure, 17 June 2024 Bortz said the group ate Cobb salad at a long, conference room-like table with Trump at one end, with Vance seated at the table too. Scott Wartman, The Enquirer, 15 May 2024 Asparagus and sugar snap peas give a seasonal spin to the traditional Cobb salad. Aaron Hutcherson, Washington Post, 4 Mar. 2024 And at the city’s Milk & Honey, a Cobb salad with lobster rings in at a whopping $54 (adding shrimp or crab instead would leave you with just a $32 bill). Tori Latham, Robb Report, 17 Oct. 2023

Word History

Etymology

probably from Robert H. Cobb †1970 American restaurateur

First Known Use

1947, in the meaning defined above

Time Traveler
The first known use of Cobb salad was in 1947

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“Cobb salad.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/Cobb%20salad. Accessed 13 Jul. 2025.

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