[B Knotts]

The old fries, or the mashed potato fries? I didn’t care for the latter.

Anyhow RIP Carl. A great man, and a classic example of a little guy making it big in America.

[ErnBatavia]

Reading, I see that he had Parkinson's and got pneumonia...same scenario as my 94 year old father, four months ago.

Apparently, Parkinson's can affect the swallowing mechanism, resulting in "aspirational pneumonia"; the sufferer ends up getting liquid in the lungs.

It killed Dad, too.