Making Chicken Salad

Anyone who's worked with me for a while has heard me say I'm making chicken salad. It originates from an old sales guy who always used to say, "They've given us chicken (crap) so we're gonna have to make chicken salad." He usually was referring to a horrible product that we (the production department) had to try to make look like the greatest Christmas toy ever. It has a broad base use as it can pretty much apply to anything. In video production we often get the worst client, producer, graphical elements, etc and just have to make the best of it because of course it will be our fault if it isn't great.