Michael Today, I'm going to introduce an item you'll probably find on American menus: the so-called Cobb Salad. It's a simple, but quite tasty dish, in a way, it's a pimped-out salad. Along green lettuce leaves, it features crispy fried bacon pieces, slices of chicken meat, and hard-boiled eggs.
Usually, it also comes with avocado and Roquefort blue cheese, and a marinade made of vinegar and oil, called "French Dressing" in the United States. Of course not mixed into the salad, but on the side in an extra cup, because Americans prefer to mix in the marinade by hand, instead of having kitchen staff take care of it.
The legend goes that restaurant owner Robert Howard Cobb invented this special salad in the 30ies of the past century, and allegedly he or his kitchen chef simply whipped up a salad made with leftovers after a hectic evening at the restaurant.