[…] Dillard [Dillard, J. L. 1970. “Principles in the History of American English- Paradox, Virginity and Cafeteria”, Florida FL Reporter 8] and others have referred to as ‘the cafeteria principle’ […] ie the idea that creoles were mixtures of various rules from different regional varieties of British English. In other words features were randomly picked out and attributed to substratum influence without regard for how they might have been borrowed or incorporated into the pidgin and creole in question.
- Romaine (1988), Pag. 108-109