Taco Salad (1961)

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   "Cobb Salad" is not yet in the LOS ANGELES TIMES database (through 1932).
It's here in this 1961 article with "taco salad," but the salads' origins are
not explained.
   "Taco Salad" has an incredible 45,200 Google hits.  It's not in the
OED...This is about a decade before all the other Ancestry hits (1970s+).  There's
one "taco salad" allegedly in "1960," but the top of the page clearly has
"1986."


   31 August 1961, GETTYSBURG TIMES (Gettysburg, PA), pg. 3, col. 6:
_SCRIBE SAYS_
_"SALADS" BEST_
_IN CALIFORNIA_
   By BOB THOMAS
   AP Movie-Salad Writer
(...)
   In California you can get salads in abundant variety.  Even a fried salad.
 This sounds like a misnomer but it's a taco--shredded lettuce, cheese,
tomato sauce and Mexican sausage wrapped in a deep-fried tortilla.
(...)
_BROWN DERBY SPECIAL_
   The Brown Derby's special is the Cobb salad, named after bossman Bob Cobb.
 It's great for people too tired to chew, because it's all chopped fine as
confetti.
(...)