Canada's Mummified Toe Cocktail Makes the BBC
The BBC covered the Downtown Hotel & Casino's yukon-famous tradition where patrons drink a cocktail containing an actual preserved human toe; the practice has roots in a 1920s prospector who lost his appendage to frostbite.
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“A toe in a cocktail, Vera? That's a forecast of foot with a ninety percent chance of regret!”
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