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The Drink With a Toe In It

The Drink With a Toe In It

The Sourdough Saloon, located in the Downtown Hotel in Dawson City, Canada, has an interesting, but extremely off-putting, signature drink.

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Daniel Ganninger
Jul 05, 2025
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The Sourdough Saloon, located in the Downtown Hotel in Dawson City, Canada, has an interesting, but extremely off-putting, signature drink. It’s called the Sourtoe cocktail, and yes, there is an actual human toe involved.

The drink originated in the 1920s when a rum runner and miner named Louie Linken had a toe amputated due to frostbite. He put the loos…

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