Olla podrida
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- Perhaps an allusion to the "mess of pottage" or "pot of lentils" over which Jacob and Esau quarrelled
- olla podrida: hodgepodfe
- D.H. Lawrence: (referring to Work in Progress) 'My God, what a clumsy olla putrida James Joyce is! Nothing but old fags and cabbage stumps of quotations from the Bible and the rest stewed in the juice of deliberate, journalistic dirty-mindedness."
