My advice: stick to the salad. Avoid the main course.
I am thinking of opening a dinner [he means diner] in Truckee, CA called the DONNER PARTY DINER. It would serve items such as: BBQ ribs; Breast, leg and thigh platter; finger steaks; rump roast diner [he means dinner] ... etc. I have ideas for tee shirts, menus and the look in the restaurant itself. I think it will be a great tourist stop in the Sierras. Anyone out there like to front the capital?
Details at http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Donner_20Party_20Diner
A soldier in the Mexican-American war in 1847 is promoted to captain for his perceived bravery but soon transferred to a remote outpost in the Sierra Nevadas when the cowardly truth becomes evident. The outpost's keepers seem on the brink of madness in their own ways, and what passes for their tranquil is shattered by the intrusion of the lone survivor of an ill-fated expedition that ended in murder and cannibalism.