Frank Fish & Mick Stickleclack reached the Carlsberg fuelled peak of their combined lyric-writing skills with the passionately yet profoundly bellowed vocal intro of "La la la-la la-la-la...la la la la la la". Recorded at Dungeon Studio in 1986.

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This is a humble tribute to the long gone Chip shop over the road from the Jericho Tavern in Oxford, scene of many a FF and the Fs gig/rehearsal/lock-in. Recorded at good ol' Richie Haines'Dungeon Studio. 'Salt'n'Vinegar'heralds those people who are constantly complaining about other people's constant complaining. As Frank Fish pointed out to a complete stranger in the Radcliffe Arms one
Friday night, "There's always seventeen people in a party of eighteen who spoil it for the rest of them!"

la la la la la...
I was fasting in the desert for 40 days
Beneath the cruel sun's burning rays
I was thin I needed to get fatter
My heart was set on Cod and Chips in batter
Oh what a wonderful feeling
I minced across the sand dunes
wiggling both my hips
True happiness for me is eating fish and chips
I saw a building on the far horizon
so I stopped walking and I started to run
I slapped a pound note on the chip shop counter - there was a woman in the queue
but I walked round her.
"Oi!" She said "Don't you know that I was here first?" I said "If I don't get some
fish right now my brain will burst!"
Oh what a wonderful feeling...
Too much Salt and Vinegar on my dead cod..
throw me a glass of water someone
my throat's so dry I need a drink
Why did you have to go and sprinkle
too much Salt and Vinegar on my dead cod...
la la la la...