A Canadian hotel famous for serving the "Sourtoe cocktail," which has a severed human toe marinating in it, recently lost their last preserved digit in one swift gulp.
The American hotel patron walked into the iconic bar, put $500 on the table (the toe-swallowing fine), and used a beer-chaser to wash down the toe, National Post reported.
In 1973 Capt. Dick Stevenson, a former boat captain, found a toe preserved in a jar when cleaning out a Dawson cabin. The digit had belonged to a former resident who had lost it to frostbite in the 1920s.
Now, for five dollars extra, Downtown Hotel patrons can enjoy a nice toe in their drink of choice. When drinking a Sourtoe the customer is only supposed to touch their lips to it. People who complete the challenge get a certificate, and are considered members of the "Sourtoe Cocktail Club."
The original toe was swallowed by a miner in 1980.
"He had 13 beer glasses full of champagne, the toe was in his mouth, he fell over backyards and swallowed it," Stevenson told the National Post.
The bar has gone through at least 15 "sour toes" since the beginning of the unusual tradition. Replacements have been acquired from "living donors," who lost their toes in a variety of accidents. Stevenson himself plans to donate all of his when he dies.
As of right now, the hotel is all out of toes. They have put out a call for new donations. In the meantime they have been substituting the Sourtoe cocktail with a drink including a bear testicle and penis bone.
Downtown Hotel has upped the fine for swallowing a toe to $2,500.
Other locals have offered their own takes on the queasy cocktail.
A Dawson City casino called Diamond Tooth Gertie's used to serve glasses of champagne garnished with an extracted molar.
The Dawson Humane Society sold "Dogball Hi-Balls," a delicious cocktail spiced natural with the testicle of a recently-neutered canine.
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