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[ForReal]

I'm sure you meant to say peanuts.

No I meant bread for the circus goers. Have you never heard the term "Bread & Circuses"? You must be thinking in terms of the "Peanut Gallery" & Howdy Doody, LOL!!

bread and circuses plural noun

Definition of bread and circuses

: a palliative offered especially to avert potential discontent

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bread%20and%20circuses

"Bread and circuses" (or bread and games; from Latin: panem et circenses) is a figure of speech, specifically referring to a superficial means of appeasement. As a metonymic, the phrase originated by Juvenal, a Roman poet active in the late first and early second century AD — and is used commonly in cultural, particularly political, contexts.
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