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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsSourtoe Cocktail - I'll just have a beer, thank you
Yes, a toe in a drink. And, if you swallow it, you'll be fined $2,500.
"In Dawson City, by the Yukon River, up north in Canada, there is a bar where you can order a shot of whiskey garnished with a real, dehydrated human toe. The ritual known as the Sourtoe Cocktail started more than forty years ago and has become almost like a rite of passage for visitors to Dawson City.
The story goes that back in the 1920s, a rum-runner named Louie Linken and his brother Otto ran into an awful blizzard, and Louie got his big toe frozen solid. In order to prevent gangrene, Otto chopped off his brothers frostbitten toe. The two then preserved the amputated toe in a jar of alcohol as a memento. Fifty years later, a Yukon local named Captain Dick Stevenson found the jar containing the toe while cleaning a cabin. He brought the pickled toe downtown, where somehow it became the essential ingredient of the celebrated drink."
http://www.amusingplanet.com/2017/07/the-sourtoe-cocktail-drink-garnished.html
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Sourtoe Cocktail - I'll just have a beer, thank you (Original Post)
packman
Aug 2017
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democratisphere
(17,235 posts)1. Is this fake news? This can't be real, can it?
UPDATE: Yep, it's real. Crazy Canadian drink not for me even if I was falling down drunk. Ohhhh Canada!
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)2. Oh, it's real...
And it tastes like shit.
raven mad
(4,940 posts)3. It's real.
Before the embargo started by Shrub, we'd go over frequently; Diamond Tooth Gerties (casino) is fun.
Solly Mack
(90,767 posts)4. Where do they get the toes? How? And most importantly....
WTF?