The Hunger Circus was supposed to be a place where food products were to be found, and to be taken home with the lunch pail. Such lunch pails were already available, the Communist version of the American model. You would have gone there, you would have taken your three boxes; you would have gone home, would have warmed and eaten them up. The bad aspect of this story was that since you could find everything cooked this way, there would have been no need for markets and raw food products. Therefore, the system would have succeeded to control what people were eating as well. He tells you what to eat on Mondays, Tuesdays, Wednesdays, ?This week or this day only fish. The huge similar complexes were built in Bucharest, for this very reason, so that people would know where to go. (I. H., S. R.-B., 132)

Exclamation expressing enthusiasm, ardour and approval. Cheers are usually produced in large groups. They marked the ending of slogans that always began with the words ?Long live!? Cheers were administered by the chiefs of trade groups who mingled with the crowd or marched on the right flank of the cheering column. In the last years of communism they used speakers that reproduced bursts of applause and vibrant cheering, recorded on magnetic tape. They were set forth at the right moments by specially appointed comrades. (51)