If you are the type of person who needs a cup of coffee to get going in the morning, how would 32,160 cups of coffee work for you? It might be enough caffeine to power an Army platoon, but that’s just what GourmetGiftBaskets.com brewed on the morning of October 15 at the Blog World Expo in Las Vegas, when they set the Guinness World Record mark for the largest cup of coffee with a 2,010-gallon batch of Colombian Arabica coffee supplied by Kerry/X Café of Princeton, MA.
The coffee was poured into an eight-foot by eight-foot cup by two high-volume coffee dispensers. I was there at the show, and I watched the cup being filled to the brim throughout the morning as a crowd gathered in anticipation. One of my thoughts was that this much coffee would create the world’s largest restroom line as well, but things seemed to stay calm when it was all said and done.
When GourmetGiftBaskets.com decided to set the world record for the biggest cup of coffee ever, they decided to shatter it! The previous record was set by 2007 with a cup that contained 911.5 gallons. The staff said they were sending the cup back to their headquarters rather than smashing it to bits, so maybe they’ll try to top the record next year. I just hope they have the world’s biggest roll of bubble wrap to protect it during shipping. (I’d hate to be the UPS guy who gets THAT package.)
And to top things off, they came back the next day to break the world record for the largest cup of iced coffee. I know that people can stay up late in Las Vegas and might need something to put some pop in their step in the morning, but this is ridiculous! I can’t imagine what they’ll do for an encore, but I can’t wait for Blog World next year to see what they have up their sleeve next.
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Pierre Zarokian is the CEO of Reputation Stars, an online reputation management company and Submit Express, an SEO company that also offers Wikipedia Page Creations.