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Cobb salad
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English
Etymology
Developed by Robert Cobb of the Brown Derby restaurant circa 1937.
Noun
en 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.
en 2010 Jennifer Egan A Visit from the Goon Squad Corsair (2011) 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: cmn 科布沙拉 Kēbù shālā
Finnish: fi Cobb-salaatti
French: fr salade Cobb f
Russian: ru сала́т Кобб m
Spanish: es ensalada Cobb f
en eponyms
en Salads