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• In 2007 guitarist Fred Mascherino left Taking Back Sunday in order to focus on his then upcoming solo album with The Color Fred. After his departure, Mascherino claimed in an interview with Long Island's Newsday that Taking Back Sunday was "more about cooking food than making music." Mascherino's departure and the comments he made afterwards were the inspiration for this song.
• Taking Back Sunday has a history of dissing their former bandmates in their songs, with jabs thrown at founding members Antonio Longo and Jesse Lacey on "Timberwolves At New Jersey" and "There's No I In Team," respectively, and digs toward guitarist/vocalist John Nolan and bassist Shaun Cooper, who left the band on bad terms in between the releases of their first two albums, on "The Union."
  
  Mascherino may have lost his place in the lineup anyway if he hadn't left when he did, because Nolan and Cooper rejoined the band in 2010, ousting Mascherino's replacement, Matthew Fazzi, and Cooper's longtime stand-in, Matt Rubano.
• Mascherino wasn't impressed with his former band's attempt to put him on blast. "I put 'Capital M-E' on and I was like, 'What's this about a snake slithering away?' and it just sounded cheesy and cliché," he told punknews.org in 2009.