smorgasbord

A smorgasbord is a "a buffet meal featuring a varied number of dishes" or a "varied collection." Whenever I hear this word I think about Templeton, the rat, from the animated Charlotte's Web singing about the feast he comes upon after the fair.

Smorgasbord comes from the Sweedish smörgåsbord, smörgås meaning bread and butter, (smör, meaning butter, from Old Norse and the Swedish dialectal gås, "lump of butter" from Old Norse gās meaning goose (see gosling) + bord meaning table, from Old Norse bordh. If we continue our etymological history with gosling, we see it comes from the Middle English variant of gesling (influenced by gos, goose) from Old Norse gæslingr a diminutive of gās (goose).

--American Heritage College Dictionary Fourth Edition