farcement

stuffing; forcemeat

They spoil a good dish with improper sauce and unsavory farcements.

A mixture of various things crammed together.

In short, it was a veritable farcement of questions that each man put to him.

The process in the average public school is not education, but farcement, to borrow an old English word — a stuffing of undigested facts into unhealthy children, after the fashion of the geese of Strasburg.

A regional dish from Savoie consisting of slow-cooked grated potatoes with cream, pork or bacon, onion, and dried fruit.

More and more local dishes are being revived nowadays, thanks to the wonderful work of Marie Thérèse Hermann; so look, because more and more country restaurants are sure to reintroduce farcements and farçons in the years to come, and I would not be surprised if a few in the Albertville-Moûtiers axis were to activate regional menus during the 1992 Olympics.

The unwary can come unstuck, however: a friend, told not to miss the farcement of Saint Gervais, struggled manfully through a plateful of this stodgy, Christmas pudding-like dish before learning that the proper way to eat it is to cut off small pieces and fry them.