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Developed by Robert Cobb of the Brown Derby restaurant circa 1937.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cobb salad
Today it means: 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. Full definition →