TIL of the Donner Party who were a group of pioneers including women and children who had to resort to cannibalism after an early snowfall cut off their destination, just one mountain pass over.

cm0002@lemmy.world · 2 days ago

TIL of the Donner Party who were a group of pioneers including women and children who had to resort to cannibalism after an early snowfall cut off their destination, just one mountain pass over.

👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 days ago

I was once stuck on a train near Donner pass for 6 or 8 hours. The train had a whole car that had been booked by a girlscout group, so I got to spend a chunk of that time listening to a few tweens debate what order to eat everyone in.

PaupersSerenade@sh.itjust.works · 2 days ago

That’s just girls being girls tbh

NotSteve_@lemmy.ca · 2 days ago

god forbid girls have hobbies

RowRowRowYourBot@sh.itjust.works · edit-2 2 days ago

I would have broken out in this song:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=0CizU8aB3c8

From this musical:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannibal!_The_Musical

👍Maximum Derek👍@discuss.tchncs.de · 2 days ago

It was been way too long since I’ve watched that.

TIL of the Donner Party who were a group of pioneers including women and children who had to resort to cannibalism after an early snowfall cut off their destination, just one mountain pass over.

TIL of the Donner Party who were a group of pioneers including women and children who had to resort to cannibalism after an early snowfall cut off their destination, just one mountain pass over.

Donner Party - Wikipedia