[Intolerant in NJ]

The Donner folks laid pretty low afterwards...although I understand from a PBS program on the incident from a few years back that one of them later went to San Francisco and became a successful restauranteur - for real.......

[calex59]

The Donner folks laid pretty low afterwards...although I understand from a PBS program on the incident from a few years back that one of them later went to San Francisco and became a successful restauranteur - for real.......

You have it right, but he was actually the only one they could actually prove had eaten other members of the party. At least they were already dead when he ate them. I think other people who had come across the country to live in CA gave the Donner party a large leeway, knowing exactly what torments they had endured just to get to CA.

[One Name]

I think I may have seen that same program- probably wasn’t an advertising plus at the time but may have inspired some culinary artisanry...