‘Disgusting’ Donation Enthusiastically Received for Yukon’s Sourtoe Cocktail

The Sourtoe Cocktail, a shot of whisky with a dehydrated human toe in the drink, is seen at the Downtown Hotel, in Dawson City, Yukon, on July 1, 2018. Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press

DAWSON CITY, Yukon—A donation that an expert in Yukon happily describes as disgusting has arrived in Whitehorse, destined to become the centrepiece of a bizarre cocktail.

The frostbitten big toe of former British Marine Nick Griffiths now belongs to the Downtown Hotel in Dawson City after Griffiths donated the digit to the Sourtoe Cocktail collection.