OLLA PODRIDA

(Span, putrid mixture.) The name given to a favourite dish of alt cla es in Spain; consisting of a mixture of all kinds of meat cut into small pieces, and ■awed with various kinds of vegetables. The epithet podrida is applied to this dish, in consequence of the poorer cla es being obliged to serve it up so often that the odour arisiim from long Keeping is far from agreeable. The phrase olla podrida is often used metaphorically in England for any Incongruous melange. [s. 863]