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Gross, right? That's a shriveled human toe.
Apparently dunking the toe in a drink before consuming the beverage is a tradition at Downtown
Hotel in Dawson City, Yukon, and it's called the Sourtoe Cocktail.
The only rule? Your lips have to touch the toe. But an American man, identified only
as "Josh from New Orleans," was apparently born to break the rules.
According to Terry Lee, who was the "toe captain" on duty that night, Josh came up to his station
with a shot of whiskey, paid the 5 dollars to have the shriveled toe dropped into his
drink, then downed it, appendage and all.
When Lee asked where the toe went, Josh simply slammed 500 dollars onto the table - the fine
for swallowing the phalange - and walked out, like a boss.
The Sourtoe Cocktail apparently originated from an eccentric man called Captain ***,
who found a preserved toe in a jar and decided the logical next step was to put it into a
beverage.
Thus, one of the world・s grossest drinks was born.
Downtown Hotel has already gone through eight of these donated toes, losing the digits to
theft or by customers accidentally swallowing them.
But never has anyone intentionally ingested the toe - until now.
To prevent this from happening again, the bar has raised the fine for swallowing the
toe to 2,500 dollars.