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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-11 02:47 PM
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For those contimplating having a Sourtoe Cocktail - more about the Toe
http://atlasobscura.com/place/sourtoe-cocktail

The Sourtoe Cocktail
Champagne seasoned with an amputated toe


The first toe is said to have belonged to a miner and rum runner named Louie Liken, who had his frostbitten appendage amputated in the 1920s. Liken preserved it in a jar of alcohol in his cabin, where Stevenson found it some 50 years later.

Unfortunately, the first toe only lasted only seven more years after its discovery. According to the Sourtoe Cocktail Club, "In July 1980, a miner named Garry Younger was trying for the Sourtoe record. On his thirteenth glass of Sourtoe champagne, his chair tipped over backwards, and he swallowed the toe. Sadly, Toe #1 was not recovered."

Since then, seven more toes have been donated to the bar. Number two was given after an amputation due to an inoperable corn; number three was from a victim frostbite (it was also swallowed accidentally); four was an anonymous toe (stolen by a hunter); toes five and six were donated by a Yukon old-timer in return for free drinks for his nurses; toe seven was an amputation due to diabetes; and toe eight arrived in a jar of alcohol with the message, "Don't wear open-toe sandals while mowing the lawn."

The original rules were that the toe must be placed in a beer glass full of champagne, and that the toe must touch the drinker's lips during the consumption of the alcohol before he or she could claim to be a true Sourtoer.



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hifiguy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-11 03:01 PM
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1. Excuse me?
"On his thirteenth glass of Sourtoe champagne, his chair tipped over backwards, and he swallowed the toe. Sadly, Toe #1 was not recovered." ?????

:wtf::rofl::silly::rofl::wtf:

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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-11 03:13 PM
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2. Cannibalism is alive and well in Dawson City
:woohoo:
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MiddleFingerMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-05-11 03:17 PM
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