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A pickled human toe, the centrepiece of a bizarre Yukon drinking ritual, was swallowed last Saturday night in an apparent act of bravado by a departing American worker.
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Just before midnight, the man entered Dawson Citys Downtown Hotel and ordered a Sourtoe cocktail, a 40-year-old rite-of-passage in which a drink of the patrons choice is served along with a preserved human toe.
Normally, the ritual calls for the drinker to merely touch the toe with their lips while downing the drink.
But, Mr. Lee said the man instead swished the toe into his mouth, washed it down with a beer chaser and then slapped $500 onto the bar the Downtown Hotels going fine for toe-swallowing.
I said Wheres the toe? and he says I swallowed it, and then immediately headed over to the bar and started bragging, said Mr. Lee.
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/08/27/mysterious-american-worker-pays-500-to-swallow-toe-at-yukon-bar/
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d28_1377814804
Scootaloo
(25,699 posts)Yukon is the place that Alaskans look at and go "Damn."
Xipe Totec
(43,890 posts)TroglodyteScholar
(5,477 posts)He did it right!
Incitatus
(5,317 posts)I so wanted to have one of those shots.
kentauros
(29,414 posts)if he'd swallowed a pickled kneecap
Glassunion
(10,201 posts)DontTreadOnMe
(2,442 posts)Maybe Obscura Antiques in NYC has a spare human toe they can sell.
reformist2
(9,841 posts):shakes head:
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)HolyMoley
(240 posts)with his drinking buddies to swallow it.