Wendy: Hey! Wasn't it around here that the Donner Party got snowbound?

Jack: I think that was farther west in the Sierras.

Wendy: Oh.

Danny: What was the Donner Party?

Jack: They were a party of settlers in covered-wagon times. They got snowbound one winter in the mountains. They had to resort to cannibalism in order to stay alive.

Danny: You mean they ate each other up?

Jack: They had to, in order to survive.

Wendy: Jack...

Danny: Don't worry, Mom. I know all about cannibalism. I saw it on TV.

Jack: See, it's OK. He saw it on the television.