[rogue yam]

Plus, he’s totally off on Mama Cass. She died of a heart attack, most likely due to her weight than anything.

I thought she choked to death on a ham sandwich.

[Mr. Silverback]

I thought she choked to death on a ham sandwich.

No, that's an urban legend. There was an unfinished sandwich in her room when she died, and early press reports seized on that as a likely cause of death, even though the coroner reported by the next day that she had died in her sleep of heart failure.

If you want full details, the account in her wikipedia entry is accurate.