Friday, September 7, 2007

Cocktail, anyone?

Ever try any strange cocktails in your life? This is one unbelievable cocktail, one that you cannot find in your normal downtown bar. It's called a sourtoe cocktail.

What's the ingredient? Oh, it's simple. Prepare a beverage, be it alcoholic or just plain soda drink. And then drop an amputated pickled toe inside! And not forgetting there's a rule to it, your lips have to touch the toe at least once.

This is a tradition practiced in the Downtown Hotel in Dawson city, Yukon, Canada since 1973. Captain Dick got the idea when he found a amputated toe in his cabin left by one of his customers years ago and started the tradition since then with some added rules after discussing with some friends.

Since then, some toes has been swallowed, some being stolen but donation kept coming in and the tradition being kept alive. So far there's 8 donaters. The 8th toe arrived in a jar of medical alcohol written with a handy life lesson, "Don't wear open toed sandals while mowing the lawn".

So, if this life lesson came too late to you, you can send in your toe too to keep the tradition going.

Source : www.sourtoecocktailclub.com

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1 comment:

Anonymous said...

demonic