Editing Chocolate and Cheese (section)

==Background==
Ween's previous two albums ''[[The Pod]]'' (1991) and ''[[Pure Guava]]'' (1992) had been recorded in a very [[Lo-fi music|lo-fi]] setting – the band only had access to their guitars and a [[multitrack recording|four-track]] cassette [[TASCAM]] [[Portastudio]]; the albums were recorded in their apartment (nicknamed "The Pod", hence the name of their second album). Having signed to [[Record label|major label]] [[Elektra Records]], Ween now had access to better resources to record. In addition, drummer [[Claude Coleman Jr.]] joined the band, meaning they had live instrumentation as opposed to relying on a [[drum machine]].

As a result, ''Chocolate and Cheese'' ended up sounding more hi-fi than Ween's prior works. The sound is clearer due to having been [[Digital recording|recorded digitally]] as opposed to the [[Tape recorder|tapes]] that the first three albums were done on, and the resources the band now had meant they could experiment more than they did in the previous lo-fi set up.

The album is dedicated to comedian [[John Candy]], who died while Ween was putting the album together. "A Tear for Eddie" was dedicated to [[Parliament-Funkadelic]] guitarist [[Eddie Hazel]], who died in 1992. In a 2011 interview, [[Gene Ween]] credited a Spanish lesson on ''[[Sesame Street]]'' with inspiring "Buenas Tardes Amigo".<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k_KoAwAAQBAJ&q=ween+sesame+street&pg=PA72|title=Ween's Chocolate and Cheese |date=2011 |isbn=9781441184306 |last1=Shteamer |first1=Hank |publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA }}</ref>