Downtown hotel
| Downtown hotel | |
|---|---|
| city | Dawson |
| address | 1026 Second Ave, Dawson City |
| Website | downtownhotel.approx |
| Hotel information | |
| Furnishing | |
| room | 59 |
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Coordinates: 64 ° 3 ′ 44.6 ″ N , 139 ° 26 ′ 0.3 ″ W.
The Downtown Hotel is a hotel in the Canadian territory of Yukon lying Dawson . It gained national fame for serving a drink called Sourtoe Cocktail , consisting of whiskey , usually Yukon Jack , and an amputated and mummified human toe .
Sourtoe cocktail
The Downtown Hotel is widely known for the cocktail served with a human toe . The story goes back to the 1920s, when the two brothers Otto and Louie Linken got into a blizzard . After the two brothers got back to their hut, Louie Linken's right foot was frozen. To gangrene to avoid amputating Otto left his toe and then kept him in a barrel with alcohol on. In 1973, Captain Dick Stevenson found the toe in the hut and invented the tradition of the sourtoe cocktail. Other sources describe that the Left Brothers only came to the Yukon from Denmark in the early 1930s.
The original toe was still swallowed by a drunken miner in 1980. This was followed by a replacement toe with an inoperable corn from Fort Saskatchewan and various preserved toes from a doctor's inventory. Five toes were donated by a miner. The average durability of a toe is around 5 years. In 2013 the toe was swallowed again. The punishment is 500 US dollars . In 2018, former Marine Nick Griffiths donated a toe that he lost during the Yukon Arctic Ultra , an ultramarathon.
By August 2018, around 83,000 people had participated in this ritual. Newer sources report 86,000 people.
literature
- Capt Dick Stevenson: The Saga of the Sourtoe . 1991, ISBN 978-0-9737656-1-8 (English).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b The history of the Sourtoe Cocktail: a shot of whiskey garnished with a human toe. Retrieved October 22, 2019 .
- ^ A b The Story and the Man Behind the SourToe Cocktail in Dawson City, Yukon. January 20, 2019, accessed October 31, 2019 .
- ^ Customer swallows human toe in Dawson City bar. August 27, 2013, accessed October 31, 2019 .
- ↑ a b UK man donates frostbitten toe to Yukon bar. June 12, 2019, accessed October 31, 2019 .