Karl’s tragic upbringing amongst a traveling circus is almost too awful to share. With as the Worlds Skinniest Man (who also ran the GUESS YOUR WEIGHT BOOTH) and his mother the Bearded Woman, Karl was raised on circus food – peanuts, cotton candy, and snow cones. Life amongst the traveling circus was a dream come true for Karl until that heartrending night with the clowns. Painted faces, horns, red noses – you fill in the blanks. This incident left Karl scarred for life. Since no one would save him, not even the Monkey Boy, Karl vowed he would devote his life to saving everything and everyone except food that is sweet, fried, yummy, and delicious.