• gordon@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Haha, LOL, I totally get it, but can someone explain it to my friend? He doesn’t get it.

    • qwertilliopasd@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      The Donner party were a group on the Oregon trail that got stuck on a mountain pass in the winter and resorted to cannibalism to survive. The Dollup did a really good podcast episode about it.

      Also the cafe in the University of Colorado UMC is named “The Alfred Packer Gill”. Alfred Packer was a similar famed cannibal.

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      2 months ago

      …i get why it’s funny (the donner party infamously resorted to cannibalism) but i don’t get how it’s ironic…

  • jlow (he/him)@beehaw.org
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    2 months ago

    What’s this about? Donner means thunder in German but I’ve also seen Brits use it for misspelling Döner (Kebab).