[gbog]

To stay on culinary metaphors, I would call lasagna code any properly architected code base where a few layers neatly face each other with evenly spread meat in between.

[vonmoltke]

And then there is baklava code[1], with too many thin, fragile, porous layers.

[1] http://www.johndcook.com/blog/2009/07/27/baklav-code/