»salmagundi

While trawling a pirate web site I saw the word journal that my father read, and that introduced me to the academic study of kitsch. I turned to the ever-ready google for a definition of salmagundi and find that it is "a highly-seasoned pirate dish made from available meats or fish" or, generally, "meat-salad dish with hard boiled eggs, beets, anchovies and pickles", or, even more generally, an assortment.