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The bar, called the Sourdough Saloon, is located in a hotel in Dawson City, a Yukon town of less than 2,000 people best known for being a base during the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rush.
The mummified toe is important because it's the key ingredient in the bar's signature drink, the "Sourtoe Cocktail." The drink involves taking a shot of whiskey with the toe submerged in it until the toe touches the lips of the drinker.
The roots of the tradition date back to the 1920s, when a rumrunner lost a toe to frostbite on his way to the Alaskan border and preserved it in a jar of alcohol. Capt. Dick Stevenson found the preserved toe in the 1970s and, naturally, took it to the Downtown Hotel to dare people into drinking shots with it. Those who partake in the drink become members of the Sourtoe Cocktail Club.
The bar's slogan is actually this: "You can drink it fast, you drink it slow, but your lips must touch the toe!"
The bar, called the Sourdough Saloon, is located in a hotel in Dawson City, a Yukon town of less than 2,000 people best known for being a base during the 19th-century Klondike Gold Rush.
The mummified toe is important because it's the key ingredient in the bar's signature drink, the "Sourtoe Cocktail." The drink involves taking a shot of whiskey with the toe submerged in it until the toe touches the lips of the drinker.
The roots of the tradition date back to the 1920s, when a rumrunner lost a toe to frostbite on his way to the Alaskan border and preserved it in a jar of alcohol. Capt. Dick Stevenson found the preserved toe in the 1970s and, naturally, took it to the Downtown Hotel to dare people into drinking shots with it. Those who partake in the drink become members of the Sourtoe Cocktail Club.
The bar's slogan is actually this: "You can drink it fast, you drink it slow, but your lips must touch the toe!"
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