Salmagundi

Salmagundi is purportedly a meal served on pirate ships. It is a stew of anything the cook had on hand, usually consisting of chopped meat, anchovies, eggs, and onions, often arranged in rows on lettuce and served with vinegar and oil, and spiced with anything available.

The name was later corrupted to Solomon Gundy in the eighteenth century. It seems likely that the name is connected with the children’s rhyme, Solomon Grundy.

Solomon Gundy retains its food connotation today as the name given to a spicy Caribbean paste made of mashed pickled-herrings, peppers and onions.

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Sal-ma-gun-di -n- 1. a salad plate consisting of chopped or sliced meats, anchovies, hard-cooked eggs, pickled vegetables, olives, radishes, endive, and watercress that are arranged in rows for color and flavor contrast and dressed with a salad dressing 2: a heterogeneous mixture

Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language: Unabridged. G.& C. Merriam Co., Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, © 1971

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Another use of the word is the name of the Keene High School, Keene, NH yearbook

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