(AHL-uh puh-DREE-duh) (n.)
1. A spicy Spanish stew 2. An incongruous mixture; a miscellany

Here's one of several foods that have joking names: literally, the Spanish expression "olla podrida" means "putrid pot." (Another example is "malasado," a Hawaiian puff pastry whose name translates as "badly baked.")

Anyway, this term for a mishmash of edible ingredients has also come to refer to any type of miscellaneous mixture.

"Her philosophy is an interesting olla podrida of old-time religion, progressive politics, numerology, and Norman Vincent Peale."