The Sourtoe Cocktail Club
The rules for joining the Sourtoe Cocktail Club are simple. Go to the Downtown Hotel in Dawson City, Yukon. While there consume any drink that has floating in it a severed human toe that has been dehydrated and preserved in salt. The bar conveniently keeps a supply of such toes. While consuming the drink, your lips must touch the toe. And that's it. You're a member of the club.The rules used to be a bit more strict. Namely, that the toe had to be floating in a beer glass full of champagne. But over the years they've relaxed that requirement.
If you're really brave, you can order a Five Toe Sourtoe Cocktail.
The tradition dates from 1973 when a dried up toe was discovered that, legend had it, belonged to a 1920s rum-smuggler named Louie Liken. What better use for the toe, the hotel figured, than to put it in a drink. Over the years the original toe was lost, but apparently it hasn't been hard to find replacements.
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Listed in chronological order. Newest comments at the end.
Listed in chronological order. Newest comments at the end.
I guess they removed the requirement to drink a beer glass full of champagne when the new laws made it harder for drivers to toe the line.
Posted by Expat47 in Athens, Greece on 04/03 at 04:57 AM
If you order one with a "Rusty Nail" do you get extra credit?
Posted by Dumbfounded on 04/03 at 05:16 AM
If you order one in a Martini, does it come with a cocktail bunion?
Posted by Dumbfounded on 04/03 at 05:17 AM
And I don't even want to think about what you would get one og their "Wine and Cheese" parties!
Posted by Dumbfounded on 04/03 at 05:22 AM
This week's featured cocktail: "A Toe Comfortable Screw Up Against The Wall."
Posted by Dumbfounded on 04/03 at 05:26 AM
Uh, hello? Health Canada? I think you may want to take a look at this one place in Dawson City...
Posted by kingmonkey in Athens, Ontario on 04/03 at 05:48 AM
Next week's: "Long Island Iced Toe."
Posted by Dumbfounded on 04/03 at 05:52 AM
If you order one in a "Shirley Temple" is it extra cuticle?
Posted by Dumbfounded on 04/03 at 05:54 AM
"Over the years the original toe was lost, but apparently it hasn't been hard to find replacements"
Yeah, they just keep washing up on Vancouver Beach.
Yeah, they just keep washing up on Vancouver Beach.
Posted by Matt in Florida on 04/03 at 06:50 AM
I'll have a corn whiskey, no corns on the toe
Posted by Matt in Florida on 04/03 at 06:51 AM
"Yeah, they just keep washing up on Vancouver Beach."
Actually, I think they ship them in from Alabama. That way they get 20% extra free.
Actually, I think they ship them in from Alabama. That way they get 20% extra free.
Posted by Dumbfounded on 04/03 at 06:59 AM
Now I know never to get a pedicure in Canada.
Posted by numb in philly on 04/03 at 07:19 AM
@ "extra cuticle"
Posted by Nethie on 04/03 at 07:42 AM
7 foot man from S.C. helps initiate 10 new members in the Sourtoe Club shortly after his burial. (Connect the dots WU style)
On a side note I had a friend that worked in a very large morgue in San Diego and from his stories procuring toes would have been a fairly easy process.
On a side note I had a friend that worked in a very large morgue in San Diego and from his stories procuring toes would have been a fairly easy process.
Posted by Pablo on 04/03 at 08:12 AM
I am NEVER going to Canada, my long lost relatives can remain that way... eeeeewwwww!
Posted by Rhi in Cali on 04/03 at 09:41 AM
that is both foul and disgusting!
Posted by patty on 04/03 at 04:08 PM
There's one club I can live without joining.
Posted by MohawkWarrior on 04/03 at 05:42 PM
Any chance of a camel toe cocktail?
Posted by Rodney D in Chicago on 04/03 at 06:43 PM
funny rodney!
Posted by patty on 04/03 at 08:11 PM
"I am NEVER going to Canada, my long lost relatives can remain that way... eeeeewwwww!"
As a proud Canadian, I can assure you that this is NOT a common Canadian custom. I am so grossed out by this. But I can't imagine it to be true... it can't possibly be legal.
It's only a fraction more gross than a worm in tequila, though!
As a proud Canadian, I can assure you that this is NOT a common Canadian custom. I am so grossed out by this. But I can't imagine it to be true... it can't possibly be legal.
It's only a fraction more gross than a worm in tequila, though!
Posted by Melodie in Alberta, Canada on 04/04 at 03:09 PM
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