#sourtoe

[i-want-a-bagel]

has anyone written a sourtoe izzy story yet?

please tell me someone has written a sourtoe izzy story

[sspacegodd]

Brit drinks shot containing toe he lost to frost bite after donating it to bar

Manchester man Nick Griffiths said drinking a cocktail with his own toe in it was 'just like having a black ice cube in there, really'

Manchester man says drinking a cocktail with his own toe in it was "just like having a black ice cube in there, really....."

Severed Toes was one of my favorite bands in the 80s.

[badluckbadger]

Sourtoe shots in some Yukon Jack

yes thats a real human toe, yes its gross

[badluckbadger]

We had sourtoe cocktails. For those who dont know, its this thing in Dawson where you take a shot that has a real, petrified human toe in it. Its a $2500 fine if you swallow it, and its mandatory that the toe touches your lips. Yeah, we paid to have an old human toe touch our lips in some Yukon jack (at Dawson City YK.)

[romanincanada-blog]

and the nightlife in Dawson was amazing! I went with Tanja and Philipp to Diamand Tooth Gerties, the old gambling hall of Dawson City. We had some relativly cheap dinner and of coarse went to one of the gambling tabels, before we saw one of the Cancan Shows which we got told about from the guides at the tour in the morning. And yes, like it was yesterday the show was exactly like you always see it in the western movies. We were pretty early and so we had a place in the front and at the end of the shows the ladies choose some guys to dance with them. And one of them thought it would be a good idea to pick me and well, I ended up on the stage trying to dance. So now I defenitly feel like I was in the Wild West! :D

After that we went to another bar and drank the Sourtoe Cocktail, a drink with a human toe in it! Luckily I didn´t had to drink the toe, but it had to touch my lips if I wanted to become a member of the Sourtoe Club. The toe was pretty black already so I didn´t seem that real, so I drank the drink fast, without thinking too much about. But Philipp when Philipp, who drank after me, finished his glass, the women who watched everyting  squeezed out the toe and he had to drink what came out of hit to fullfill the task, at this moment I was pretty happy I had everyting done already...

Afterwards we went to another bar and had a normal beer, so without any specials. But it was pretty interesting to talk with Philipp a bit about beer, cause he is brewer back in Germany and on their tour they are also visiting a bunch of brewerys so he can compare. 

But after this my second day in Dawson was over and I went to sleep, or at least I tried, cause it was still so light. Sun was setting around 11 pm.

[behindthatfairfacade-blog]

I read some really weird shit while I was high last night.

[younglitdabgod]

We kissed it. #sourtoe #dawsoncity

[ckgalloway]

Dawson City

As part of my job as a flight attendant for Air North, I got to fly to Fairbanks and Dawson City and spend Friday night in Dawson City. It's a tough job, I know. I had the opportunity to get some neat photographs during the ferry flights between Whitehorse, Fairbanks and Dawson City. (Ferry flights are flights with no passengers)

 One of the pilots, Daniel, was kind enough to give me a lovely but slightly inaccurate tour of Dawson, having only been there a couple of times before himself. Here are some of the photos from our wandering.

After touring the town we met up with some more Air North crew for dinner at El Dorado, then we checked out the sourtoe phenomenon at the Downtown Hotel. If you haven't heard of the sourtoe, it's a Dawson City tradition where you have a shot with a toe in it. Not a fake plastic toe, or toe-looking olive, an actual severed human toe. For $5 you get to take the shot with the toe in it and you have to let the toe touch your lips to get the sourtoe certificate. My brother did this years ago when he came to Dawson for work and delighted in grossing people out with the pictures.

For a while, there was no toe. The story I heard is that someone took the shot, drank the toe on purpose and slapped down the $500 fine. How many thousands of disappointed tourists were formed after that unfortunate incident, I can't even guess. Eventually a new bigger toe was donated and the toe swallowing fine is $2500. On Friday night, visitors flocked to the toe, eagerly lining up for their shot. I spoke to one gentleman who seemed a bit grossed out by the whole thing while his wife did the sourtoe ritual with an ear-to-ear grin.