The Sour Toe Cocktail in Dawson City - Yukon Territory, Canada
Join Captain Al Sider of the infamous Sourdough Saloon in Dawson City, as he describes one of the Yukon Territory's most unique and well-known traditions -- taking a shot of whiskey, with a severed toe in the glass.
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I Drank a HUMAN TOE COCKTAIL | Sourtoe Cocktail- Dawson City, Yukon BC
One of the traditions of Dawson City is to drink Sourtoe cocktail at the Sourdough Saloon, Yukon. It is a human toe drink that has been dehydrated and mummified. Watch my Road to the Arctic Ocean series, BC:
The first toe is said to have belonged to a miner in 1920s, who had his frostbitten toe amputated and preserved it in a jar of alcohol. 1973, Yukon local Captain Dick Stevenson brought the toe down to the Sourdough Saloon in Downtown Hotel. It was made a drink challenge for the brave. And that’s how the Sourtoe Cocktail Club was formed. Today, you can try your hand at the drink and get your name written in as part of the sour toe cocktail club. You even get a certificate!
Costs of the cocktail is $5 plus the cost of the whiskey you choose.
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What it feels like to join the Sourtoe Cocktail Club in Dawson City
The saying goes: You may drink it fast, you may drink it slow, your lips must touch that toe. This is what it takes to become part of the Sourtoe Cocktail Club, a time-honoured drinking tradition that started in the Sourdough Saloon in Dawson City, Yukon. And, yes, legend has it that that’s a real dehydrated human toe, which will cost you $2,500 should you accidentally swallow it.
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Drinking Human Toe Cocktail Gets You Into Special Cocktail Club
If you're thinking you can stomach the toe, step up to the bar at the SourDough Saloon in Canada's Yukon territories. There, you can get a pickled human toe in any drink as a right of passage. To complete it, and become a member of the Sourtoe Cocktail Club, you'll have to allow the toe to touch your lips. Patrick Jones has the rest.
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A cocktail with a mummified human toe in it It exists at this Canadian saloon
If you're looking for a drink with an extra kick, the Sourtoe Cocktail has just the ingredient: a human toe.
Served up at the Downtown Hotel's Sourdough Saloon in Dawson City, Canada, the cocktail is connected to a legend that dates back to the 1920s about bootlegging brothers who placed one of their frostbitten toes in moonshine as a memen-toe. In 1973, the preserved toe was discovered and the Sourtoe Cocktail Club was born.
Nowadays, people from all over the world stop by the seemingly typical saloon in the Yukon territory to become part of its history.
Jacob Schutte, 29, from Perth, Australia, first heard about the cocktail on social media and quickly added it to his travel bucket list.
It was just one of the things I had to go do, Schutte, who did the Sourtoe earlier this year, told USA TODAY.
And he isn't alone – Schutte says his certificate, which drinkers of the cocktail are gifted after completing the challenge, listed him as the 91,373rd person to drink it.
You first pay for your shot of choice, then pay an extra $6 ($8 CAD) to one of the Toe Captains, the servers who administer the toe-filled drinks and go over the rules: You must let the toe hit your lips but no biting, chewing or putting the toe in your mouth is allowed. Swallowing the toe will also land you with a fine of about $1,900.
“(The Toe Captain) holds the toe in his hand and says, 'You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow, but your lips must touch this gnarly toe,' Schutte recalls. He waives it in front of your nose as well, and then he just drops it in your drink and you just do the shot.
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GV. Pan, the sleigh going through wooded country on way to Whitehorse for the Yukon Sourdough Festival. SV. Two more dog sleighs going past camera. GV. Dog sleigh entering Whitehorse, old paddle steamers in background. CU. Men in costume dress inside saloon. CU. Money being placed at gambling table. CU. Wheel spinning. CU. Woman watching. CU. Wheel comes to a stop. CU. Woman jumping with joy. SV. Another woman kicking hat into the air. GV. Start of ladies snow shoe race. GV. Competitors. CU. The eventual winner. GV. As the winner breaks the tape. GV. Men playing baseball. SV. Ball flying through air to fielder. SV. The batsman running through the snow and he falls over. SV. Girls shouting. SV. Man laying in the snow, throws the ball to other men who start kicking it. SV. Man grabs hold of the ball and throws it. He is tackled from behind, and brought to the ground. He throws snow in his attacker's face and tries to escape but the attacker gets hold of one of his snow shoes and holds him. Several shots of the money changing hands in saloon. CU. Man playing cards. SCU. Woman with legs up on table. SV. Exterior, man carrying four bags of flour past camera. SV. People applauding. SV. As the man reaches truck and unloads the four bags of flour. SV. Another man loaded with flour falls over. SV. Another man caries flour bags, staggers and finally falls.
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Looking to add something truly grotesque to your bucket list? Well, you can horrify your friends and family by taking a trip up to Canada's Yukon Territory, and sucking the whiskey off a dead man's mummified toe. The Sourdough Saloon, in Dawson City, is famous for its Sourtoe Cocktail--a shot of hard liquor, of your choosing, that contains the dried, severed toe of a former trapper who succumbed to frostbite. In order to be inducted into the elite Sourtoe Cocktail Club, the dirty digit must touch your lips as you drink. The saloon operator, Captain Dick Stevenson (you heard me), claims that the salt-cured toe is completely harmless, due to its constant alcoholic sterilization. Sold! But if someone asks if you want to join the SourPenis Cocktail Club, high tail it outta there.
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