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A glorious mess that somehow makes sense, like a junk drawer with ambitions.
means A confused, random mixture of unrelated things thrown together without order.
from From the French hochepot, a stew you shook (hocher) in a pot — literally a shaken meat-and-veggie jumble that escaped the kitchen to describe any chaotic blend.
Legal cousinHotchpot once meant pooling property to divide fairly.
Spelling driftHochepot to hotchpotch to hodgepodge over centuries.
Kitchen originStarted as an actual peasant stew recipe.