Yes, if there’s no avocado then it is not a Cobb salad.
No.
Better than a scab salad, huh?
Yes. Mixing it all together ruins the salad. If you mix it together then it’s not a Cobb salad. It’s just a random salad with random crap in it.
It’s the opposite of meatloaf. If you cook all the meatloaf ingredients seperate and then put them on the plate seperatley then it’s not a meatloaf. It’s just hamburger with random crap on the plate.
To me, a more appropriate analogy would be serving a burger constructed vs serving a burger with each of its elements (patty, bun, onions, tomatoes, lettuce, cheese) arranged around the plate.
The rare times I eat Cobb salad, I mix it up anyway, so I’m not too concerned about whether it’s tossed together or not. It’s still Cobb salad. But gotta have the avocado.
If I am not mistaken …
A Cobb salad is a salad that was invented by someone named Cobb.
It’s just like a Waldorf salad which was invented by some chef at the Waldorf Hotel.
And that salad that has a lot of grated Parmasean Cheese and Romaine Lettuce. It was named after a chef whose name was Caesar. It’s a Caesar Salad.
I Googled “Cobb salad” and lookee what I found:
Various stories of how the salad was invented exist. One says that it came about in the 1930s at the Hollywood Brown Derby restaurant, where it became a signature dish. It is named for the restaurant’s owner, Robert Howard Cobb.[1] Stories vary as to whether the salad was invented by **Cobb ** or by his chef, Chuck Wilson. The legend is that Cobb had not eaten until near midnight, and so he mixed together leftovers he found in the kitchen, along with some bacon cooked by the line cook, and tossed it with their French dressing.[3] This version of the story (dated to 1937) is retold in episode 3, season 2, of comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm, when Larry David searches for evidence to prove that another character, Cliff Cobb, has falsely claimed that his grandfather invented the salad.
Another version of the creation is that Robert Kreis, executive chef at the restaurant, created the salad in 1929 (the year the Brown Derby’s Hollywood location opened) and named it in honor of Bob Cobb, the owner.[4] The same source confirms that 1937 was the reported date of the version noted above, with **Cobb ** making the salad.
Of course you can’t really always trust Wikipedia 100 percent. But that sure looks accurate to me.
Oh Dear! Please excuse me. I did not notice that you said the origin was Wkiable. I did not understand what you meant by that. I apologize.
Don’t you find that most restaurants can inevitably mess up anything that you order off the menu?
They do not usually mess up simple things. But, things that the chef may not know or may not prepare on a regular basis, can be expected to be prepared incorrectly.
The one thing that I like to order is a sliced tomato on the side of most dishes. How difficult would you expect that to be? Inevitably the chef finds new and different ways to get that wrong. Can anyone explain why that would be too difficult to do correctly? It’s just a tomato that’s been sliced. Why is it such a problem?
It’s hard to expect that things like a Waldorf Salad or a Cobb Salad will be prepared correctly. After all, unless the chef is accustomed to working at a four star restaurant, why would you ever expect them to get unusual orders right?
The one thing that disappoints me is that if they don’t understand something, why can’t they just ask? Why is that so difficult? Asking about a special item should be so easy and yet, for some very strange reason, they hardly ever do that.
Why is that? Could it be that they are trying to send us a message? They don’t like when people order things off the menu?
Craven control freakazoids like to mix the salad themselves. Some of them even buy yogurt with the fruit on the bottom. They figure they get a meal and entertainment in one package.
Those sad folks are easily amused. Yes, I am one of those freakazoids. Also, not all Cobb salads are served in a too-small salad bowl.
That’s interesting. I don’t think I have ever had a Cobb salad in a bowl, and I have had many Cobb salads.
Since when is a Cobb salad an unusual order? They are served in national chains as standard menu items. Of course, the last one I ordered came with lettuce and bacon. No tomatoes, no chicken, no avocados. I looked at the waitress and asked her where the rest was. She asked if I wanted that stuff, and I told her that it was supposed to be a Cobb salad, so that stuff was kind of expected. :dubious:
Well, I was considering a plate with high rims to be a bowl. I eat a few Cobb Ss, but not many.
FWIW, here’s google images on Cobb salads. Some of the serving receptacles look a little small; others are fine. Rims vary. cobb salad - Google Search
The waitress asked you if you wanted that stuff. I wonder what the odds were that she even knew what the other components were.
I’m guessing that an “unusual order” would be most anything that is not contained in a Hamburger, Fries and a Milkshake.
I remember driving along a Highway that went North South from Los Angeles to Seattle. I stopped in a truckstop diner just North of LA and it was just like I stepped out of a time machine set for 1940. Everything about that restaurant was perfect. Just magnificent. The food was so delicious I just wanted to move in there. I asked to speak to the owner. I told her that I loved her restaurant and it was the best thing I had experienced in years. I never understood why the owner just looked at me with a puzzled look on her face. Surely she must have known what a treasure she had there.
The milkshake I ordered was like liquid gold. I was just dumbfounded at how wonderful that place was. I tipped the waitress 100%.
If I wasn’t due back at my job the next day, I would have asked the owner if there were any jobs available. Anything - a dishwasher would be great.
That place would be just the perfect place to live and die.
This was a major chain restaurants, with Cobb Salad on the menu, in pictures even. So any kind of salad is not unusual. Ordering salads isn’t even unusual at McDonalds or Wendy’s. I don’t know why you think it would be at a major chain.
And yes she knew what was supposed to be on it, she brought it all without me listing each missing ingredient. For some reason, she just didn’t think to put them on.