# origin of the name **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [March 29, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-the-name/165056 "2003-03-29T19:12:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Marque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Marque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marque)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-the-name/165056/1 "2003-03-29T19:12:53Z")
Does anyone know the significance of the name “cobb salad”? ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-the-name/165056/2 "2003-03-29T19:21:50Z")
[From here:](http://www.thefoodmaven.com/radiorecipes/cobb_salad.html) > [@](#): > > One night in 1937, Bob Cobb, then owner of The Brown Derby, prowled hungrily in his restaurant’s kitchen for a snack. Opening the huge refrigerator, he pulled out this and that: a head of lettuce, an avocado, some romaine, watercress, tomatoes, some cold breast of chicken, a hard-boiled egg, chives, cheese and some old-fashioned French dressing. He started chopping. Added some crisp bacon – swiped from a busy chef. > > The Cobb salad was born. It was so good, Sid Grauman (Grauman’s Chinese Theatre), who was with Cobb that midnight, asked the next day for a ‘Cobb Salad.’ It was so good that it was put on the menu. ---
**Author:** ![Marque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/77aa72/32.png) [@Marque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marque)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2003, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/origin-of-the-name/165056/3 "2003-03-29T20:07:26Z")
Thanks! I’m printing this out and showing it to the restaurant owner who told me last night it was named because the lines of the different items of food on the salad resemble the lines on a cob of corn. Sheesh!