The advice on this website could not be clearer: “Stay away from cheap tea bags”. The question then is, of course, what do you do with those sad heaps that have been languishing at the back of your cupboard for years and that you never dared offer anyone – let alone a tea sommelier ?
Strangely enough, the people at Guinness World Records have a solution. You could use your tea bags to beat the world record in
Tossing tea bags into cups from a given distance in 30 seconds !
Yes, you are reading this correctly. You don’t need to have your eyes tested (and I would have thought you also need to have your brain tested if you engage in the above activity, but it looks like I am wrong and there are enough people to pursue this strange enterprise.
The world already has records for
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- The largest tea bag (https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-tea-bag)
- The highest tea party – for over 16-year-olds (https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/96117-highest-tea-party)
- The largest collection of tea bag holders – yes, holders (https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-collection-of-tea-bag-holders)
- The largest collection of tea bag covers (https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/largest-collection-of-tea-bag-covers)
- The largest tea towel (https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/413680-largest-tea-towel)
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In April 2022, body builder Dan Douglas from Jefferson, Massachusetts USA, successfully dunked 13 tea bags ! Thirteen ! This is no small feat – this is actually a world record !!
If you don’t know what to do with 13 cups, you could try to throw just one bag into just one cup from really far away – but if you find you don’t excel at either sport, please do not try to burn your nose instead. It just does not make sense !