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" Drinking hot sake on a 90-degree day was an immediately regrettable decision. Forget what you&amp;#039;ve heard about downing a warm drink on a sweltering day to feel cooler; Delish video editor Philip Swift can honestly say it doesn&amp;#039;t work. Or, at least it doesn&amp;#039;t when it&amp;#039;s your seventh drink of the day, and you&amp;#039;re standing in the center of Disney World, as excitement-overloaded children short circuit around you. That plus, Florida&amp;#039;s late-summer humidity making your clothes sticky and the air thicker than the German pilsners at the Biergarten nearby could make anyone lose it.  Swift had committed to that theme park-goer rite of passage\u2014drinking around the world at Epcot\u2014while filming his documentary, The Dark Side of Disney. It&amp;#039;s something most of us have only joked about, so as EPCOT launches its International Food and Wine Festival (running now through Nov. 14), we asked him to take us through what it&amp;#039;s really, truly like to take on the challenge. &amp;quot;It&amp;#039;s been kind of a nightmare,&amp;quot; he said, while ordering sake. It only gets crazier from there. Swift wasn&amp;#039;t a novice, either. He had read the guides online\u2014including Leonard Kinsey&amp;#039;s alternative travel guide, which inspired his film. Many seasoned Drink-Around-the-World veterans will tell you to start at Mexico, working your way around the World Showcase, until you&amp;#039;ve downed one cocktail, glass of wine or beer at each of the eleven countries. Since the park is typically open for 10 hours a day, that gives you less than an hour to down each drink\u2014and hustle from one country to the next.  If you&amp;#039;re Swift and camera operator Zach Lennon-Simon, however, you&amp;#039;ll try to cram it all into four hours&amp;#039; time. The two drank beer at several countries, largely so they wouldn&amp;#039;t black out before making their way from pavilion to pavilion.  &amp;quot;According to Jo [Saltz, editor of Delish], I should have had more diversity in my drink selection: wine slushies in France, sparkling ros\u00E9 in Italy, champagne in France, but that would have ended my life,&amp;quot; Swift says. He&amp;#039;s probably right.  In hindsight, there are a few things he&amp;#039;d do differently, like giving himself more time to hit up each country\u2014and visit during the Food and Wine Festival, rather than late summer. &amp;quot;You can get a smaller, 4 to 6-ounce drink and still feel like you&amp;#039;ve accomplished something,&amp;quot; he explains.  So what happened when he could only order full-size drinks in each country? Well, you&amp;#039;ll have to check out the video above to get those details, which have to be seen to be believed, honestly. (Spoiler: There were tears. And singing. All the feels.) If you&amp;#039;re feeling bold enough to try drinking around the world yourself, you can always follow our guide\u2014or pin it for later.  To get a more in-depth look at how adults (and Disney fanatics from all walks of life) explore the parks, check out The Dark Side of Disney, on DVD and Video on Demand now. Follow Delish on Instagram. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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