Dawson, Yukon Ter., Canada: Drink With A Human Toe In It

They offer a variety of drinks and a truly incredible experience! Getting your name added to the ledger and the Sourtoe Certificate is a great touch.

Captain Dick Stevenson, who invented the "Sourtoe Cocktail" -- a drink with a human toe in it -- has died at age 89. He created the cocktail in 1973 when he discovered a human toe in an abandoned cabin, mummified by Yukon weather, and talked the bartender in Dawson City's Downtown Hotel to drop it into a specialty drink. Since then nearly 100,000 people have knocked back the cocktail, and the bar now maintains a collection of around 10 donated toes to reduce wear and tear.

That number will soon increase, as Captain Dick's daughter Dixie told the CBC that he wanted his toes to be cut off, preserved, and used to make more Sourtoe Cocktails.

I was on the fence about experiencing the Sour Toe cocktail. But it is only served between 9 to 11 PM, and I was there too early....

The BBC reports that Nick Griffiths, a former British Royal Marine, has mailed to the Downtown Hotel in Dawson City his amputated left big toe. It will eventually be served to customers in the hotel bar's infamous "Sourtoe Cocktail" -- a glass of whiskey with a mummified human toe in it. Griffiths lost his toe to frostbite in the Yukon in 2018, and said he planned to travel to Dawson later this year to quench his thirst and reunite with his body part.

The hotel said it would need several weeks to mummify the toe before it would be added to the current roster of toes -- four or five -- that are dropped into the cocktail. Those who drink the "Sourtoe" must touch the toe to their lips. The hotel was excited because its toe supply is down -- depleted by customers who accidentally swallow them -- and Griffiths had donated a big toe, which are especially hard to find.

The fine is now $2,500 for swallowing the toe! The captain will read you a proclamation and give you a certificate.