ScrapIronChef

Last edit September 29, 2014
You need certain equipment to cook dinner. Your choices are (1) find it in the junkyard (2) bodge something (3) steal it (4) go hungry.

From a memorable episode of Good Eats that merged the IronChef and JunkyardWars motifs.

If you work somewhere that can only buy software and equipment once a fiscal year, then you HaveThisPattern.

-- DavidFlater