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The same tension between the two ideologies is used in two further pieces. The first one is concerning the difficulty in finding and buying meat in the Ceausescu-era. The complementary parts of the animals that are bought instead were named by the general population after luxurious goods to be found in the West. Thus, the flimsy claws of chicken were called ‘cutlery’, the pork head ‘computer’ and the meatless feet of pigs ‘adidas’. The latter ironic metaphor is literalised by Nanca through the three stripes of the famous brand placed onto pork feet.
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Basically the popular name for pork feet was 'adidas' which is the word people use for sports shoes in Romanian (just like everywhere else they say Xerox for photocopier etc). Basically by branding the pork feet I am bringing people's attention to recent history when they could only buy pork feet — at a time when capitalism and it's brands are seriously taking over people's lives...