Canada’s Weird Foot Fetish Continues: Hotel Serves Cocktails Garnished With Severed Toes

A U.K. man who lost three toes to frostbite in a Yukon race says he can't think of a better place for the digits to go than into people's drinks.

Nick Griffiths plans to donate his amputated appendages to the Downtown Hotel in Dawson City, Yukon, home of the famed Sourtoe Cocktail.

According to the hotel's website, adventurous drinkers interested in joining the Sourtoe Cocktail Club should visit the hotel's Sourdough Saloon and ask for Captain River Rat. They then purchase a shot of their preferred liquor, pledge the "Sourtoe Oath," and watch as a dehydrated human toe is dropped into the glass. Then it's bottoms up.

The only rule: "You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow, but your lips have got to touch the toe."

Full story here.

Something is going on. I don’t know what it is, but I know it has to do with feet. Months ago I wrote a blog entitled, “Apparently Feet Washing Ashore In British Columbia Is No Big Deal: Happens All The Time: Again, No Big Deal” about how feet just keep washing up the Canadian coastline, while that bothered me, it sure didn’t seem to bother any Canadian citizens. When it comes down to it, that’s some weird shit, but whatever- it’s a one off. But here I am reading about a guy who donated three of his frostbitten, amputated toes to a bar to garnish their drinks, and now I KNOW something is amiss.

Is this a country that’s just more comfortable with amputation than I am? That’s a legitimate question, because I’d like a legitimate explanation. If I was handed that a drink with a blackened, dead toe as a garnish, I would set that establishment on fire. If my lips touched the glass before noticing said abomination of toe- then I would not leave said establishment as it burned to the ground. I understand that this is a cool story to tell at a bar (I guess,) but it seems fucking disgusting. As far as I’m concerned you’ve got toe breath for the rest of your life, and you’re going to die alone.

Canada, consider this a warning, I know you like feet. I’ve  spent months in my hastily assembled headquarters collecting the evidence and finally I’ve connected the dots. Feet washing up on shore, nobody leaves. Interesting. Frostbitten toes garnish drinks, and people don’t kill themselves after consuming. Suspicious. Rex and Rob Ryan, both alleged lovers of feet, coach in Buffalo, not Canada but very close in proximity, for a duration. Downright damning. You’ve caught the eye of this blogger, special investigator regarding the Royal Wedding and now Canada’s foot problem. How far I’ve come since November.

P.S. Yes I’ve bitten my toenails before but was just one or two times and that’s dIfFeREnT