The Sourtoe Cocktail

Fireside Canada by David Williams / Frequency Podcast Network

Mar 30, 202300:43:25Society & Culture

"You can drink it fast, you can drink it slow, but the lips have got to touch the toe." So goes the prime directive of the Exalted Order of the Sourtoe, a cocktail club dreamed up in the 1970s to celebrate Discovery Day...

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