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The Newest Trend in Cocktails? Severed Human Toes!
Just when you think that Brooklyn is on the cutting edge of the fancy drink scene, you realize that the really avant-garde things are happening in a tiny little town in the Yukon Territory of all places. The whole bar-as-speakeasy and bespoke cocktail movement might still be alive and well in Brooklyn, but there's nothing really new about it, you know? There's nothing about drinking a Vieux Carré at Weatherup that's really so adventurous. Because, as satisfying as the perfectly mixed Manhattan is, it still doesn't contain a pickled and severed human body part.
Now, that's what I call an artisanal ingredient.
The Wall Street Journal reports on a little bar—the Sourdough Saloon—in Dawson City, Yukon Territory where patrons partake in a drink called The Sourtoe. The Sourtoe is so singular a beverage that those who imbibe it are prone to saying things like, "this is the coolest thing I've ever done." Or "I got it in my mouth a little."
"It" is a human toe. The legend behind the Sourtoe is as colorful as you would hope. In 1973, the drink's creator, one Captain Dick "River Rat" Stevenson, "found a severed big toe preserved in a pickle jar in a cabin outside of town." Instead of tossing the toe aside as someone without much imagination would have done, Captain Dick came up with the rules of the Sourtoe, "take a beer glass full of champagne, drop in the toe, tip the glass back…and the toe must touch the lips."
http://www.thelmagazine.com/binary/9...sofwhiskey.jpg
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Rex Ryan has been to the severed toe bar several times, so I heard.
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That's why I always wash my hands, cook my food thoroughly, and rarely eat out... so I can avoid something like that growing inside of me.
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You're welcome! Happy Friday, everyone!
dude....thanks for ruining my day :ols:
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You may have seen this pic before:
http://media.treehugger.com/assets/i...g-parasite.jpg
It's a parasite called Ceratothoa imbricata and is found is South Africa.
Apparently, they've now found a relative of it off the coast of Jersey (not New Jersey):
Bizarre Tongue-Eating Parasite Discovered Off the Jersey Coast
There's been a spate of amazing animal discoveries recently--the giant rat-eating plants found in the Philippines, a huge woolly rat discovered in a volcanic crater--and now, yet another animal has emerged that could be right out of a sci-fi film. It's a bizarre creature that survives by eating its hosts' tongue and then attaching itself inside the mouth.The sea-dwelling parasite attacks fish, burrows into it, and then devours its tongue. After eating the tongue, the parasite proceeds to live inside the fish's mouth. There's a horror film waiting to be made about this thing. Surprisingly, the fish doesn't seem to suffer any severe impediment--just the loss of its tongue. And it seems to have no trouble surviving with its new, far uglier tongue.
While the isopod, a kind of louse, has been known to exist for a while now, discoveries of live specimens are rare. The BBC reports that "Fishermen near the Minquiers - islands under the jurisdiction of Jersey - found the isopod, a type of louse, inside a weaver fish." So no, the tongue-eater wasn't found in that Jersey. The Jersey Shore is still tongue replacing creature-free, if you stateside Northeasterners were worried about the thing ruining your late summer vacationing.
Now, the picture above is a relative of the one discovered off the Jersey shore -- the one causing the ruckus, Cymothoa exigua, looks like this:
http://media.treehugger.com/assets/i...site-louse.jpg
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Sounds like a made for TV movie on the Sci-fi channel starring Lou Diamond Phillips, reprising the role of sheriff (which he's played in about 30 other movies).
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It's a bizarre creature that survives by eating its hosts' tongue and then attaching itself inside the mouth.The sea-dwelling parasite attacks fish, burrows into it, and then devours its tongue. After eating the tongue, the parasite proceeds to live inside the fish's mouth. There's a horror film waiting to be made about this thing. Surprisingly, the fish doesn't seem to suffer any severe impediment--just the loss of its tongue. And it seems to have no trouble surviving with its new, far uglier tongue.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRtgoJ_pFnQ
Takes place in Maryland. A very cool movie.
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So wait...did that thing just come out of a dead spider? That vid gave me goosebumps.
