smorgasbords

Noun

smorgasbord (plural smorgasbords)

1. A Swedish-style buffet comprising a variety of cold sandwiches and other dishes; (by extension) any buffet with a wide selection of dishes.
   • In the middle of the saloon they observed a small table set out with little dishes, containing bread and butter, sardines, pickled herrings, cheese, large baskets filled with rye biscuit, dark and untempting to Mabel's English eye, and the never failing brandy. Gathered around the smorgasbord were...1876, [Justin] André, chapter V, in Overcome, Rouses Point, N.Y.: Lovell Printing & Publishing Co., →OCLC, page 81
2. (figuratively) An abundant and diverse collection of things.
   • “Every time you went into the library,” said the book, “the Creator of the Universe held His breath. With such a higgledy-piggledy cultural smorgasbord before you, what would you, with your free will, choose?”1973, Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions, Random House, published 2010, →ISBN, page 256

   Synonyms:

   assortment, hodgepodge, medley, miscellany, Whitman's sampler, bouillabaisse, bric-a-brac, catch-all, clamjamfrey, cocktail