Proper noun for when you don't have enough money to buy or make legit meals so you end up combining different foods together that probably shouldn't go together to create a meal.
Nate was considered "Chef Pooryardee" when he made "ramenghetti" for dinner one night. (Ramenghetti is a mixture of ramen noodles and $1 pasta sauce from the local Hy Vee).
Dr. Drew on Celebrity Rehab said "All of a sudden what had been just another Hollywood proposal became for him an unexpected blessing, an opportunity for growth. In drug recovery language, that's called a "God shot."
A food native to Pittsburgh/Western Pennsylvania in which cubes of pork and/or veal are put on a short, wooden skewer, breaded, then baked and/or fried.
I've heard that city chicken originated during the Great Depression, when folks didn't have enough money to buy full cuts of meat, so they assembled meat scraps on a wooden skewer, creating a make-shift drumstick. Hence the name.