Ryan claims his grandfather created the Cob salad

[Earth_First]

Larry David calls bullsh*t...

[Chipper Chat]

1. I think he meant the "Snob Salad"

with LiarLiarPantsOnFire dressing.

[undeterred]

2. What on earth does that have to do with running for office?

[Earth_First]

10. Right, I forgot that everything must be so mundane that laughter is prohibited.

*OR*

You could have simply chosen not to respond...

[undeterred]

19. I wasn't putting down your post -

just find it weird that Ryan would bring it up in a campaign.

[shraby]

3. What is a Cob salad??? Never heard of it.

[jsr]

6. It's Cobb

[Systematic Chaos]

11. LOL -- beat me by barely a minute.

[Systematic Chaos]

9. It's a salad with a lot of meat and cheese, which to me sorta invalidates the "salad" part anyway.

And it's actually Cobb salad, with two b's.

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[titaniumsalute]

12. Kind of popular in the midwest

It is usually a salad with chopped lettuce, bacon, sometimes chicken, tomatoes, hard boiled eggs, avocado and usually a vinaigrette dressing. Pretty yummy. Sometimes it is called a Chef's salad.

[Atman]

13. It's different than a Cobb Salad.

Ryan invented the "Cob" salad, so named because of the corn cobs thrown in along with the spoiled, rotting old vegetables and table scraps in order to provide texture. It was an inexpensive meal for the help.

[eppur_se_muova]

18. GMTA ! nt

[Blue Idaho]

4. Was his grandfather running a marathon at the time?

Ryan is a pathological liar.

[Tom Ripley]

5. More likely that his grandfather was Ty Cobb

[Politicalboi]

7. Wow, I had no idea they were

Friends let alone related.

[reformist2]

8. Did he really say that? LOL

[alcibiades_mystery]

15. No...it's a bit in Curb Your Enthusiasm

The joke is that Ryan claimed to have run a sub-three-hour marathon, when he only ever ran one marathon, and he ran it in 4:01:and change, a substantial difference. Ryan, in other words, is the kind of pathological liar who will make things up like a sub-three hour marathon time, or, as the character in Curb your Enthusiasm, that his grandfather invented the Cobb Salad.

[Earth_First]

14. Wow, the grammar police, spelling enforcement agency *and* an old fuddy duddy...

All in the same thread?!

A little less startch in the collars this week, folks...

It's a satirical pop culture reference in reference to the Paul Ryan marathon claim that is clearly lost on every single individual whose responded thusfar.

[Nye Bevan]

21. Don't be so sensitive. Satire goes over the heads of many, many DUers,

even when it is much more obviously satirical than your post.

[mysuzuki2]

16. Yeah, yeah, sure she did! And in a related story the Reuben sandwich was named after my grandfather

His name was Ed.

[Tom Ripley]

23. And I'm a direct descendant of the Earl of Manwich!

"How can I keep my whist cards clean while eating this chili? By Jove, I've got it!"

[bigtree]

17. in less than 3 hours

[Canuckistanian]

20. Wiki says it was created at the Brown Derby, in Hollywood

Most likely named after the owner of the restaurant, Robert Howard Cobb

I see no mention of anyone from Wisconsin.

This guy may actually be the EXACT kind of liar that Al Gore was accused of being

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cobb_salad

edit to add link

[NV Whino]

22. Cobbling together another lie, is he?