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Introducing the Cobb Salad's sixties stepsister...
Bacon 'n Tomato Salad
This popular flavor combination of a bacon-lettuce-and-tomato sandwich has been captured in this delicious salad. [Betty Crocker's Dinner in a Dish circa 1965]

Just what makes it so damn delicious, you ask?

• 1 head lettuce, torn into bite-sized pieces [why don't they do that at the salad bar?!?]
• 2 cups cubed cooked chicken
• 8-10 slices bacon, crisply fried [let's not go there - my carbon-dated bacon experiment hit the garbage at approx 11am and was replaced by it's grocery bacon-by-the-pound bits around 5p]
• 2 large tomatoes cut into eighths [godbless that fraction chapter in 2nd grade]
• 1 hard cooked egg, sliced [I opted for 3, my fam's cholestrol levels don't require a lipitor 'script - yet]
• Barbecue dressing [below]

Have lettuce and chicken well chilled. Combine in a bowl. Break bacon into large pieces and lightly toss [watch out for cigarette ash whilst tossing] with lettuce mixture. Top with chilled tomatoes and hard-cooked egg. Serve with [you guessed it] chilled Barbecue Dressing.

Wow. Never seen a recipe so dependent on the fridge chill factor, all molded salads aside.

Barbecue Dressing

• 1/2 cup mayonnaise or salad dressing [mmmm...mayo!]
  
• 1/4 c bottled barbecue sauce
• 1 tbsp instant minced onion
• 1 tbsp lemon juice
• 1/2 tsp salt
• 1/4 tsp pepper

Admittedly, I had never made my own salad dressing until this sassy, saucy suggestion came along. Glad I whisked it together, because this BLT-for-bunnies would have been missing some zip. Let's just say there's a reason someone from California crafted the Cobb soonafter. What I would have done for some avocado, 'n bleu cheese, 'n spouts, 'n ham. In short, I give you creative license to toss more - and more flavorful - 'ngredients into the Bacon 'n Tomato Salad.