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re: Do you have a Christmas Pickle?
Posted on 12/1/22 at 1:15 pm to SouthBendBob
Posted on 12/1/22 at 1:15 pm to SouthBendBob
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No but my mom got one from me last night, you little bi*ch
Big wheels keep on turnin'
Carry me home to see my kin
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Posted on 12/1/22 at 2:13 pm to SouthBendBob
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No but my mom got one from me last night, you little bi*ch
Congrats on the sex
Posted on 12/1/22 at 2:34 pm to John Gotti
Wiggins, MS is known as Pickletown USA
Posted on 12/1/22 at 2:39 pm to fr33manator
From what Ive read it it probably isnt really German just a marketing ploy. Didnt see this living over there. Where did you get the Saarbrucken connection? We lived very close to there and visited the town all the time. If it did have a refional origin I coukd see that since the Saarland is on the German/French border and isnt typisch Deutsch.
This post was edited on 12/1/22 at 2:40 pm
Posted on 12/1/22 at 2:39 pm to HenryParsons
No
Posted on 12/1/22 at 2:54 pm to HenryParsons
I am a Christmas Pickle
Posted on 12/1/22 at 3:08 pm to HenryParsons
This post was edited on 12/1/22 at 3:09 pm
Posted on 12/1/22 at 3:24 pm to HenryParsons
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Christmas Pickle
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Oma and Opa
I don't know what any of this Yankee heresy is nor do I want to. Sounds like some nonsense from New Jersey.
Posted on 12/1/22 at 3:37 pm to HenryParsons
Actually we do.
My wife read about it a few years ago and we decided to do it. Our kids enjoy it.
But we do it a little different. First kid to find the pickle opens the first present.
My wife read about it a few years ago and we decided to do it. Our kids enjoy it.
But we do it a little different. First kid to find the pickle opens the first present.
Posted on 12/1/22 at 9:18 pm to HenryParsons
We have had one for a long time. We don't give an extra present for it, but the kids like to see who will spot it first. This year we actually moved it to our kitchen tree because it has all food-related ornaments.
Posted on 12/1/22 at 9:32 pm to Roovelroe
Oma and Opa are German for grandma and grandpa
Not necessarily yankee
Not necessarily yankee
Posted on 12/1/22 at 9:35 pm to HenryParsons
Wait, like an actual pickle? That you pull out of the fridge?
My folks have a little pickle ornament that the kids have to find. Whoever does gets to open the first gift.
My folks have a little pickle ornament that the kids have to find. Whoever does gets to open the first gift.
Posted on 12/1/22 at 9:36 pm to HenryParsons
I'm 45, and I just heard about this 5-7 years ago.
Posted on 12/1/22 at 9:37 pm to fr33manator
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It’s a gherkin
Why did you look at my pickle, bro?
Posted on 12/1/22 at 9:41 pm to SouthBendBob
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No but my mom got one from me last night, you little bi*ch
Posted on 12/1/22 at 9:44 pm to HenryParsons
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Oma and Opa's house
Germans
Posted on 12/1/22 at 9:45 pm to HenryParsons
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Doesn't everyone do this?
Certainly not
Posted on 12/1/22 at 9:46 pm to HenryParsons
Never knew about it until the we the visited Andersonville National Historic Site/National Prisoner of War Museum a few years back around Christmas time.
Saw a display about the legend along with a tree decorated in pickle ornaments. We bought one in the gift shop. We don't hide it though. Just added it to our other ornaments.
Saw a display about the legend along with a tree decorated in pickle ornaments. We bought one in the gift shop. We don't hide it though. Just added it to our other ornaments.
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One origin story goes back to the American Civil War (1861-1865) and a Bavarian-born soldier Private John C. Lower. He was enlisted in the 103rd Pennsylvania Infantry, captured in North Carolina in April 1864 and sent to the prison in Andersonville, Georgia (also known as Fort Sumter) where by August 31 there were over 31,000 prisoners. According to the Lower family history, by Christmas Eve he was starving, weak, and near death when he asked the guard for a pickle, which the guard provided. Miraculously, John recovered and credited the pickle with saving his life. After the war ended in 1865, he returned to his family in Pennsylvania and began a Christmas tradition of hiding a real pickle on the Christmas tree each year, with the first person to find it being assured of good fortune in the coming year.
Posted on 12/1/22 at 9:51 pm to HenryParsons
frick no
Posted on 12/1/22 at 9:53 pm to HenryParsons
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No but my mom got one from me last night
Confused. Does mom get the pickle
On Christmas Eve or Christmas morning??
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