Given her decades of success in Hollywood, some fans just want to know what Jennifer Aniston eats for lunch.
“Is Jennifer Aniston really eating the salad I saw on TikTok? It looks delicious,” asks a reader in the latest issue of We weekly. The salad in question is one of Aniston’s Friends Co-Star Courtney Cox first mentioned in an interview in June 2010 with The Los Angeles Times.
“Jennifer and Lisa (Kudrow) and I had lunch together every day for ten years. And we always had the same thing – a Cobb salad,” the 60-year-old Cox said at the time. “But it wasn’t really a Cobb salad. It was a Cobb salad that Jennifer jazzed up with turkey bacon and chickpeas and who knows what else. She just has a knack for food, which really helps. Because if you’re going to eat the same salad every day for ten years, it had better be a good salad, right?
Aniston, 55, played the role of Rachel Green alongside Cox in the hit sitcom Friendswhich ran for ten seasons from 1994 to 2004.
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In recent years, the recipe has gained new popularity thanks to social media, as many chefs have attempted to make the salad themselves. However, Aniston has since revealed that Cox’s memory of the dish was incorrect.
“Well, this salad, dare I expose it?” she joked in an interview with Elle“This is not the salad I ate every day Friends.”
Aniston noted that she “felt terrible because it literally came off like crazy and looks like a delicious salad,” adding, “But that’s not the one I had on Friends.”
Aniston revealed the ingredients of her salad in a video interview with Lure later that same year, noting that, contrary to some people’s instructions, the recipe did not contain bulgur, cucumbers, eggs, onions, pistachios, or basil.
“The salad was from the cafeteria and it was a Cobb salad that we basically messed up,” she explained. “And it was just lettuce – iceberg lettuce, I think, which has no nutritional value at all – and chopped tomatoes and chickpeas – too many chickpeas are a little bad for the stomach. For mine, anyway.”
She continued, “(There was also) salami, crispy, crunchy turkey bacon and chicken. Oh, and pecorino cheese (and) Italian dressing.”
