Olla Podrida

Olla Podrida (lit., 'putrid pot'), a Spanish national dish, consisting of flesh, fresh and salted, poultry, vegetables, &c., well seasoned with pepper and garlic, and stewed together in a closed pot. The term is applied figuratively to literary productions of very miscellaneous contents. The French equivalent is pot-pourri, and the Scotch hotch-potch, both of which, but especially the former, are also employed in a figurative sense.