A Nice Cuppa

Some records are made to be broken. And Sunday in Nagoya, Japan a lotta folks just broke one. Thousands of people volunteered to take part in a tea ceremony that would break the world record for simultaneous tea-drinking.

Sunday’s ceremony makes it’s way into the record books, sweeping aside the record set at an American ceremony last May. Last May’s ceremony included 7,250 people, this year’s event in Japan included nearly double the amount of people - 14,178, all drinking their maccha green tea, simultaneously. According to a newspaper article, “Sunday’s event in the Aichi Prefecture city featured participants facing one another in pairs along a red mat nearly 5,000 feet long.”