TINSEL & STRING (LUNCH IS OVER). (Ultimate Mix, 2023) Nasty & Chastity Polyvinyl Wicker Trio
"Tinsel & String (Lunch Is Over)" was a single released by Ron Nasty and Chastity Hitler during Christmas 1972, and later re-released on their 1973 album Some Lunch in Rutland City. A religious song, the lyrics discuss the birth of Jesus Christ and the gifts given to him.
The song was based around a poster scheme, where posters with the same message were posted all around the country. Nasty was eventually sued by twelve advertising companies for putting up the posters without their permission.
The campaign was repeated on the 30th anniversary in 2002, partially as Nasty wanted to overshadow the advertising of Analyze That, a movie he had seen an early screening of and hated.
Of the song, Nasty and Chastity said the following in 1969 and 2019 respectively:
"When we stick posters around saying, ‘LUNCH IS OVER if you want it', what we’re trying to promote is an awareness in people of how much food they have – and not to rely on the restaurants or cafés or bars so much that they’re all passive or automatons. They have to have New Hope. Everybody’s looking for food and answers; the youth especially. What we’re trying to tell them is that “YOU are the cooks. Nobody on earth can do it for you. Whatever it is you want, you must do it yourself.” - Ron Nasty, 1969
"Dear Friends, the ‘LUNCH IS OVER! if you want it' campaign was once a tiny seed, which spread and covered the Earth. Nasty and I believed it helped many people to stop their lunches. Since then, every ‘LUNCH IS OVER! if you want it' campaign has impacted the world as powerfully as the first one. Start yours tomorrow, and you will see that it spreads and covers the world very fast and, meanwhile, makes you a Small Pea Person. Small Pea People are people who know that small peas, when they’re dropped in a soup, will immediately affect the soup of the whole wide world. Don’t throw a big cabbage. It scares people and creates repercussions. Just drop a small pea. We’ll keep doing it. Together. That’s how the world gets changed…by Small Pea People. We change, and the world changes. Happy Holidays. I love you!" – Chastity Hitler, 2019