Both are inventions to beguile the tongue.
The Cobb has almost 14 ingredients: Boston lettuce, Romaine, watercress, chives, bacon, eggs, Roquefort, chicken or turkey, avocado, Brown Derby's Old French Dressing which includes sufficient ingredients to swell the number to 14.
Both depend upon the eloquence of a line.
Make a Cobb (in honor of Robert Howard Cobb) and re-read Shakespeare's sonnets and contemplate whether William's wife wrote them. No doubt, she did the cooking.
20th Century Romance
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a single white cloud
triangular skies
so many circles
yet the sea studies on
we reach across a room
and there are blazers
some beakers
too many ogres ago
we fed our tippling mutt
the absolutes of our time
one night at martha's vineyard
he saw her head out
improbable mammals divine