hey if you celebrate/d Christmas can you reblog this and tag it with 1. whether or not you ever hung a Christmas Pickle on your tree and 2. where you’re from? i’m really curious
1. Yes. Current Christmas pickle finding CHAMPION 2. The South
1. What? Why would you do that? Doesn’t it go bad and/or smell nasty? So confused. 2. New York.
1) What on Earth is a Christmas pickle? I celebrate two Christmases and have some pretty weird traditions but pickles? I love pickles but they belong in jars or in my tummy. Not on trees. 2) The UK.
It’s an ornament that looks like a pickle.
That’s better… but again, why?
1. We hang a pickle, but unlike @aspiringdoctors we don’t do anything with finding the pickle. It just hangs out on the tree. We also have various other food-shaped ornaments for unknown reasons.
2. New England
I’m mostly getting the message, from folks like @shirtless-anon and @doctorofwhut and @cygnata that it involves an extra present for the lucky finder. Which is pretty cool! Not entirely sure how it started (why pickles? I’m guessing one of the few foods actually around in the winter?) but I haven’t heard of it in the UK, not that my knowledge of obscure English traditions is complete. Coming from abroad means you take your own weird traditions with you, but you grow up with slightly different ones at home. Believe it or not, when I was very little, I didn’t even *get* Christmas presents, because where my parents came from, they used to be New Year presents. Needless to say, like my Hindu, Muslim and Jewish friends, we kids were keen to adopt any tradition pretty fast where getting presents was involved ;)
I have a Christmas pickle!! Got in 1999 and it still hangs on the tree. I’m from the Midwest, USA
Yes! My grandparents do the Christmas Pickle and I am the reigning Pickle champion. Last year I won a little statue of a snowman for finding the Pickle.
1) huh???
2) I grew up Kansas.
1. Yes, gift for finding it is usually a gift certificate/card 2. South Carolina
1. yes, we hang a pickle ornament and one of the grandchildren has to find it on my grandparent’s tree and they got an extra little gift. my grandma told me it was a german tradition from her german father that started it at her household. but i’ve googled and a lot of ppl say it’s a myth.
2. i’m from illinois, but they were from ohio!
