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June 13, 2019 06:54 pm PDT
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Man mails amputated toes to saloon for use in their Sourtoe Cocktail
Nick Griffiths suffered from frostbite while running in the Yukon Arctic ultra-marathon. After surgeons amputated three of his toes, he mailed two of them to Dawson City in the region where the Downtown Hotel's Sourdough Saloon uses (and reuses) disembodied digits in their infamous Sourtoe Cocktail that's been on the menu for forty years. From The Guardian:The beverage consists of a mummified human toe floating in a whiskey shot; patrons must let the digit or its blackened nail touch their lips in order to receive a certificate and qualify for admittance to the Sourtoe Cocktail Club.
He kept one of the toes as insurance because, (Griffiths) said: Im not sure really you should be posting toes.
More than a month later, the toes arrived in Dawson City. We couldnt be happier to receive a new toe. They are very hard to come by these days, said the hotel in a statement.
Terry Lee, the hotels toe expert will now preserve the digits in rock salt for at least six weeks before they are served in whiskey.
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