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I cannot promise how, where or when these words were used, if ever. I simply find them delightful, and want to share.

HODGEPUDDING

A pudding of many ingredients.

I wonder if this is where meatloaf started? I wonder this because a “pudding” in the medieval era is much different than a pudding in modern American. Or maybe this is the source word for “hodgepodge,” which is just a jumble of stuff, not necessarily food.

My husband tells me stories of his father making something he called goulash.

It was definitely not real goulash.

He would just grab random cans of whatever in the cabinet and dump them all in the same pot, simmer and serve it to his sons. “It’s goulash,” he would say.

Canned veggie soup with canned chicken soup, some manwich all together and you got yourself a meal, I guess.

But he should’ve called it hodgepudding.