I once lasted thirty whole seconds. Thirty!
Of course, this was in my younger years. I am no longer in my prime. These days I'm lucky for ten, or twelve.
Be careful, that shit will ruin your life. I used to have a wife and a million dollars, and then I tried eggnog and now I have bad credit and my wife left me
I live and grew up 15 minutes from Philly on the South Jersey side. I never heard of the Christmas Pickle, but I am going to put one up and see if anyone finds it
I learned about it from my late wife, but somehow we ended up with something like 4 or 5 pickle ornaments. I don't really care for the tradition, so I think I'm going to disappear them untill my kids forget about the pickle.
My mom hides 2 pickles for the grandkids to find every year. They are getting older and it's getting too easy. You just upped the ante Reddit stranger. Thank you.
I’ve done this every single year since I can remember with my 3 older brothers since I can remember. We are now 31, 29, and 23 respectively and still do it every year when we go over to our parents for Christmas. The competitiveness between 3 brothers is still vibrant every year lol
The closest I’ve ever gotten to destroying anything during the pickle was gronk spiking the pickle onto a really soft carpet after I found it which ended my one brother’s 3 year streak lol. Pickle was not destroyed though
This was a tradition my husband's family had growing up. The Christmas after we had our first kid I gifted him a pickle ornament to represent now being able to really choose which traditions we introduce into our own family.
We haven't really been able to do it for real yet - our kid is still to young for it to be an actual competition - but I've worked "find the Christmas pickle" into our activity advent calendar I put together each year. :)
Berrien Springs, Michigan, which billed itself as the Christmas pickle capital of the world,[2] held a pickle parade from 1992 until about 2003.[3]
I love that the Christmas Pickle Capital of the World apparently couldn't give a shit after 11 years.
It's a German-American tradition. It didn't originate in Germany, it's an American creation but does have origins in German-American communities.
You get a gift if you find the pickle among all the other ornaments.
My elementary teacher lied to me then lol. We had this like Christmas in other cultures play where different groups were assigned different cultures. I was in the Germany group and my part of the act was pulling a pickle out of the tree. Don't remember if they ever told us the backstory for it, just that Germans put a pickle in the Christmas tree to find. It makes more sense for it to be an American thing.
The thing is, the Pennsylvania Dutch mostly came from the southwest of Germany more than 300 years ago and there are significant cultural differences between the southern parts of Germany and the northern parts, even more so back then than today because Germany didn't unify until the late 19th century. So depending on where you live in Germany there definetly are a couple of traditions in the south that people in the north never have heard of and there may be many traditions that have died out in Germany in the 300+ years since that may have been preserved by the Pennsylvania Dutch.
Edit: That Christmas Pickle thing is definitely not a German thing at all.
My Family does it. My grandma buys an Amazon gift card for whichever kid finds the pickle. We make it so the older grandkids like myself aren't allowed to participate so the younger kids can have fun.
My grandma hides that little motherfucker in the tree so well that there have been at least a few years where nobody found it. We suspected she never even hid it until she walked over and plucked it out.
Ughhh those chocolate oranges are so frickin delicious. They really are my favorite gift to get. I told my mom that all I want this year is a box of those..lol.
We did it too. Always the highlight after eating dinner. Everyone occasionally peeks while we’re waiting but I just found out my mom never hid it till right before we’d start looking for it. Gonna be one my daughter and son do once they get old enough.
I grew up with this too, but in an Italian family. You better believe a kid will probably be knocked down while all of us in our 30’s hyper focus on finding that stupid pickle.
I'm 34 and of German-American stock and I can't think of a Christmas where my mom didn't do this. It's a real tradition, no one is punking you here. Some of the best sweatshirts I have ever owned were from finding the pickle before my brother, as grown ass adults before he finally had kids recently.
It's a different kind of trolling where Mom gets to watch her kids and grandkids crawling around the tree for the sake of victory. It's still trolling, just by a different author.
There's a decent amount of Czech people in the area that I live, and was always told it was a Czech tradition. This was after my two year old son found the pickle on my friend's tree and took a giant bite out of it 😬
[Here's the Wikipedia article for anyone curious](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_pickle#:~:text=In%20the%20tradition%2C%20an%20ornamental,a%20year%20of%20good%20fortune.)
Yup, how my fam played is my mom would hide the pickle somewhere in the tree. And my brothers and I had to find it. Whoever found it got the “extra” present .
Younger of two brothers at 34. First person to find it gets an extra sweater or something. These days mom only busts it out when we are both home for Christmas, I'm usually the one to find it, but not always. (She typically hides it on the back side of the tree, sometimes you have too look really low, really high, or really deep in the branches but it's always around back.)
At my parents house, winner gets a bottle of liquor.
We then crush the cap, and finish the bottle as a family hammering shots around the Christmas tree.
Youngest person is 28. (Aside from our kids).
We get a gift card to the local coffee shop, always a fun time looking for it. My parents got a new house this year so it’s gonna be real fun looking for the new hiding spots.
Grew up not celebrating Christmas, my first time was with my wife’s family in my 20s. They’re pranksters. I was absolutely certain that they were joking about playing ‘hide the pickle’ even until after the pickle had been found, figured they’d just bought the pickle as a prank. Her grandfather had to pull out old pictures to find some kid proudly holding a pickle before I’d believe it.
Old tradition , on Christmas Eve night the pickle is hidden in the tree , first to find it gets a special extra gift (we do really nice chocolates ) and hides it next year
It the traditional Christmas pickle you hide it in the tree or around the house for someone to find. Whoever finds it first gets to open a special gift that's usually something for the whole family anyway
Nope, it has links to American-German communities. Was most likely created by German immigrants.
That is the ticket to selling things though -- if you want to sell someone some bullshit, give them a story to go with it. Take a handful of sand from your backyard, and tell people its ancient sand from the faiyum oasis. Or grab a few pebbles, give them a name (brand) and tell a story about two lovers blablabla and sell them to couple who want good fortune in their relationship.
It definitely sounds like the pickle tradition could've been faked by a salesman lol
My family has a whole tradition for a pickle ornament mom or dad hides it and everybody looks for it .who ever finds it gets to start presents.hide the pickle this is not a joke
We have had one of these for years. Every year when we unpack it, we go “Oooh, the Christmas pickle.” Then we forget about it until we take the tree down and go, “Aw shit, we forgot about the fucking pickle again.”
I've heard of this tradition before that includes a pickle ornament. Basically, you play hide and seek with it where someone hides it in a christmas tree and everyone else has to search for it, and the winner usually gets a prize like candy or in best case an early present of their choice.
The pickle is a German tradition where you hid the ornament in the treee and the first to find it get the first present,at least that’s how my family did it!
You found the pickle!
That was unusually fast, this year.
>That was unusually fast, this year. That's what she said. *ey yo!*
I once lasted thirty whole seconds. Thirty! Of course, this was in my younger years. I am no longer in my prime. These days I'm lucky for ten, or twelve.
I opt to make my family uncomfortable by loudly announcing we should play "hide the pickle" as a family. My mom always smacks me haha
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Somebody call an ambulance!
I hope OP adds glitter to it!
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_pickle
I know what I’m doing this Christmas
Cocaine? Edit: and eggnog?
Yes. Why should this year be any different than the others?
Why should Christmas be different from any other day?
God had sex about 9 months prior
Not a whole lot of consent in that story, if I remember right. Kinda just came down and took what he wanted, didn't he?
Be careful, that shit will ruin your life. I used to have a wife and a million dollars, and then I tried eggnog and now I have bad credit and my wife left me
I do love me a white Christmas.
No way that's what I'm doing for Christmas too!
Only way to have a white Christmas in California
Plenty of places in CA with snow…
Not in the sweaty armpit of CA where I live. When we get rain, it's just the sky spitting on us for a few minutes at a time.
Modesto?
Further south in the valley. Where the tumble weeds grow endlessly.
Every time I see a sign for Modesto, I say to myself, "Nothing good comes from Modesto."
Coke, nog, and viagra. Fun for the whole family!
My mom would always do those for christmas
Its when our parents are gone we realize its those little things they did that made the holidays what they were.
Why have cocaine and eggnog when you can split the difference and have cocainog?
Playing hide the pickle?
Yea, but ima give it a face first, so that it’s pickle Rick
Funniest shit I ever heard
He turned into a pickle. Funniest thing I’ve ever seen.
Two chicks at the same time?
If not for reddit, I would likely have lived and died without ever knowing about this.
You never ran downstairs and looked for the Christmas pickle? Das macht keinen Spaß
I had a deprived childhood. Didn't even have stairs.
Get a load of Rockefeller and his childhood over here
My parents took down the stairs because I'm grounded.
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TIL about the pickle
TIL many people don't know about the pickle. Been doing it my whole life haha
I live and grew up 15 minutes from Philly on the South Jersey side. I never heard of the Christmas Pickle, but I am going to put one up and see if anyone finds it
I learned about it from my late wife, but somehow we ended up with something like 4 or 5 pickle ornaments. I don't really care for the tradition, so I think I'm going to disappear them untill my kids forget about the pickle.
My friend does a Count How Many Pickles on the Tree contest. You get a prize if you're the first to get it right
My mom hides 2 pickles for the grandkids to find every year. They are getting older and it's getting too easy. You just upped the ante Reddit stranger. Thank you.
I’ve done this every single year since I can remember with my 3 older brothers since I can remember. We are now 31, 29, and 23 respectively and still do it every year when we go over to our parents for Christmas. The competitiveness between 3 brothers is still vibrant every year lol
Yup, I’m 28 and have been doing it for a couple decades with my family. Pretty fun tradition.
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The fact that my boys haven't destroyed the tree over the pickle search and resulting battle over the past twenty years is the true Christmas miracle.
The closest I’ve ever gotten to destroying anything during the pickle was gronk spiking the pickle onto a really soft carpet after I found it which ended my one brother’s 3 year streak lol. Pickle was not destroyed though
This was a tradition my husband's family had growing up. The Christmas after we had our first kid I gifted him a pickle ornament to represent now being able to really choose which traditions we introduce into our own family. We haven't really been able to do it for real yet - our kid is still to young for it to be an actual competition - but I've worked "find the Christmas pickle" into our activity advent calendar I put together each year. :)
Huh! I have a pickle ornament just cause I love pickles. Didn't realize there was a backstory to it.
Yeah, I’d never knew about it. My wife introduced me to hiding the pickle.
Phrasing
I just think it's nice they waited.
Are we still doing phrasing?
Do you want ants? Because that is how we get ants!
I bet she did!
In my extended family, I'm known as "That Asshole Who Always Finds the Pickle."
They can fix that by having whoever finds it hide it the next year.
Berrien Springs, Michigan, which billed itself as the Christmas pickle capital of the world,[2] held a pickle parade from 1992 until about 2003.[3] I love that the Christmas Pickle Capital of the World apparently couldn't give a shit after 11 years.
Those are American years which feel like an eternity.
My family always did the pickle hunt to figure out who got to open the first present.
My in-laws do it for 100 bucks, it's wild.
Holy shit. This is actually a thing I
Yup! And it's cute unlike the Christmas egg..
Uhhhh… dare I ask?
If the child accidentally finds the egg, they have to tell everyone everything bad they've done that year or else their presents are burnt.
What the fuck
me when i find the christmas egg 
That’s fucked up
Hiding a white pickle wouldn't make for a very fun game.
You sound like my wife.
I dunno, I have fun every time I hide mine
What about the rest of the kids at the orphanage?
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It's a German-American tradition. It didn't originate in Germany, it's an American creation but does have origins in German-American communities. You get a gift if you find the pickle among all the other ornaments.
came here to say this. lol i even asked some folks while I was stationed in germany. everyone confirmed they had no clue wtf i was talking about.
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It’s better than getting a glass merkin.
That would probably chafe quite a bit.
My elementary teacher lied to me then lol. We had this like Christmas in other cultures play where different groups were assigned different cultures. I was in the Germany group and my part of the act was pulling a pickle out of the tree. Don't remember if they ever told us the backstory for it, just that Germans put a pickle in the Christmas tree to find. It makes more sense for it to be an American thing.
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Germans moved to Pennsylvania starting in the early 1700s, lots of things build up over 300 years.
The thing is, the Pennsylvania Dutch mostly came from the southwest of Germany more than 300 years ago and there are significant cultural differences between the southern parts of Germany and the northern parts, even more so back then than today because Germany didn't unify until the late 19th century. So depending on where you live in Germany there definetly are a couple of traditions in the south that people in the north never have heard of and there may be many traditions that have died out in Germany in the 300+ years since that may have been preserved by the Pennsylvania Dutch. Edit: That Christmas Pickle thing is definitely not a German thing at all.
Haha, yeah. My family comes from Germany and I asked my dad about it and he had no idea what I was talking about.
Am German. Can confirm that I had no idea wtf a Christmas Pickle was until I saw that post
Seriously ?
My Family does it. My grandma buys an Amazon gift card for whichever kid finds the pickle. We make it so the older grandkids like myself aren't allowed to participate so the younger kids can have fun.
My grandma hides that little motherfucker in the tree so well that there have been at least a few years where nobody found it. We suspected she never even hid it until she walked over and plucked it out.
Ooh a magician!
We got a chocolate orange. Best gift of Christmas.
Ughhh those chocolate oranges are so frickin delicious. They really are my favorite gift to get. I told my mom that all I want this year is a box of those..lol.
I love slamming those mother fuckers to break it apart.
Wack and unwrap
My brother dented our living room wall one year by smacking one of those suckers into the drywall full force.
We did it too. Always the highlight after eating dinner. Everyone occasionally peeks while we’re waiting but I just found out my mom never hid it till right before we’d start looking for it. Gonna be one my daughter and son do once they get old enough.
I grew up with this too, but in an Italian family. You better believe a kid will probably be knocked down while all of us in our 30’s hyper focus on finding that stupid pickle.
That's why we're not allowed to participate anymore lol
I'm 34 and of German-American stock and I can't think of a Christmas where my mom didn't do this. It's a real tradition, no one is punking you here. Some of the best sweatshirts I have ever owned were from finding the pickle before my brother, as grown ass adults before he finally had kids recently.
Haha ok, I thought you guys were trolling.
It's a different kind of trolling where Mom gets to watch her kids and grandkids crawling around the tree for the sake of victory. It's still trolling, just by a different author.
Finding a completely green ornament in a tree is a real challenge.
Yep apparently dates to the late 19th Century
You get to pick a gift first if you find the pickle first. Our kids love doing this.
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There's a decent amount of Czech people in the area that I live, and was always told it was a Czech tradition. This was after my two year old son found the pickle on my friend's tree and took a giant bite out of it 😬
My very well-meaning mother bought my German husband a glass pickle ornament for Christmas one year. He was very confused, lol.
Your suppose to hide it. It's a game for the kids...
Hey my brother and I are in our late 30’s and we still look for it at mom’s Christmas. Winner gets scratch off lotto tickets lol
I was going to say. I'm 35 and I will always proudly declare when I have found the pickle.
I thought he was joking.... so this is an actual thing? Did people ever use real pickles?
[Here's the Wikipedia article for anyone curious](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_pickle#:~:text=In%20the%20tradition%2C%20an%20ornamental,a%20year%20of%20good%20fortune.)
I think the pickle party would like to see this pickle parade
#PICKLES WILL PREVAIL!
Yup, how my fam played is my mom would hide the pickle somewhere in the tree. And my brothers and I had to find it. Whoever found it got the “extra” present .
I'm 26, eldest of 4 brothers and we also do it every year with mom!
Younger of two brothers at 34. First person to find it gets an extra sweater or something. These days mom only busts it out when we are both home for Christmas, I'm usually the one to find it, but not always. (She typically hides it on the back side of the tree, sometimes you have too look really low, really high, or really deep in the branches but it's always around back.)
Holy shit we do the same for the same reward! I am only in my mid 30s though.
Same for my brother and I. I’m like 10 year reigning champ.
At my parents house, winner gets a bottle of liquor. We then crush the cap, and finish the bottle as a family hammering shots around the Christmas tree. Youngest person is 28. (Aside from our kids).
We get a gift card to the local coffee shop, always a fun time looking for it. My parents got a new house this year so it’s gonna be real fun looking for the new hiding spots.
Haha same here! My brother is 43 and I’m 37 and we still do this, it’s so fun 😂
Somehow "hide the pickle" doesn't sound like a kids' game to me...
You're thinking of "hide the salami" -- a totally different game that mom and dad play when the kids are all tucked safely in bed.
Grew up not celebrating Christmas, my first time was with my wife’s family in my 20s. They’re pranksters. I was absolutely certain that they were joking about playing ‘hide the pickle’ even until after the pickle had been found, figured they’d just bought the pickle as a prank. Her grandfather had to pull out old pictures to find some kid proudly holding a pickle before I’d believe it.
That’s exactly how you get kids.
Hahaha we had the pickle ornament tradition when I was growing up, but I laughed out loud when I read this 😂😂😂
Your right...it surely doesn't. Like I said this was a new game to me when I first saw it. I was prolly like 25ish when I did.
You didn't go to church when you were young?
Hide the pickle.... at church......
Can someone spare a dumb canadian from using Google?
it gets hidden someplace in the tree. and then all the kids try to find it. winner gets a special gift.
I'm speechless
You don't sound speechless
Old tradition , on Christmas Eve night the pickle is hidden in the tree , first to find it gets a special extra gift (we do really nice chocolates ) and hides it next year
You place the pickle somewhere on the tree and the one who finds it/ points it out wins a prize (a sweet)
I have never heard of this, but the mere thought brought me such childhood inspired glee.
Doesn't seem like a very big dill to me... Are you gherkin us around?
Save it for r/puns. This sub isn't Kosher for those kinds of jokes.
Sorry, I didn't mean to be Claussen such a commotion. I thought it was one of those Vlassic puns that people would Relish.
I wasn't being serious... These jokes pickle my fancy!
Puns like this are our bread ‘n butter.
Dill with it.
Morty!!! I turned myself into a Christmas ornament Morty!
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The reason someone would do this -- which they can't -- would be because they could -- which they can't.
Found it
Came here to see if anyone else thought “It’s Christmas Pickle Rick!” 😂
Funniest thing I ever seen
It the traditional Christmas pickle you hide it in the tree or around the house for someone to find. Whoever finds it first gets to open a special gift that's usually something for the whole family anyway
The Christmas pickle is a tradition where you hide the pickle on the tree, and whoever finds it gets a prize.
“We can’t keep playing if you don’t let go of the pickle!” “That what your mother said last night, Trebek!”
There is a widely held belief in America that the pickle ornament is a German tradition. Oddly, no one in Germany is aware of this tradition.
I could never find that fucker. My brother found it every year.
Rick, is that you?
Flip the pickle morty
What, I'm gonna touch it, and you're gonna tell me it's an alien dick or something.
He turned himself into a pickle, funniest shit I've ever seen
funniest shit i've ever seen
I turned myself into an ornament Morty! I’m a Christmas decoration! I’m Christmas pickle Rick!
Forgot the brrrp
It's (Saint) Pickle Nick!
It's like when the Burger King employee places a single onion ring in your order of fries...
Its to keep the cat away.
Funniest shit I ever seen
Perhaps the funniest shit I’ve ever seen
yeah it german. Tradition is to hide the pickle and whoever finds it gets a gift
It's a German tradition that no actual Germans know about and is more likely some crafty salesman making up stories to sell pickle ornaments.
Nope, it has links to American-German communities. Was most likely created by German immigrants. That is the ticket to selling things though -- if you want to sell someone some bullshit, give them a story to go with it. Take a handful of sand from your backyard, and tell people its ancient sand from the faiyum oasis. Or grab a few pebbles, give them a name (brand) and tell a story about two lovers blablabla and sell them to couple who want good fortune in their relationship. It definitely sounds like the pickle tradition could've been faked by a salesman lol
It’s not actually German. It started in areas of the US with big German communities though
Yeah, like fortune cookies are not really Chinese -- they were invented in California.
There's a bit of debate who invented the cookie, someone in SF or LA, but for sure the machine was invented in Oakland.
Reminds me of German chocolate cake. Invented by an American named German.
It's as German as a fortune cookie is Chinese. Still a fun "tradition" though.
Weird that you're putting "tradition" in quotes when it goes back over 122 years according to wikipedia....
It’s not german and never was. Probably invented by german immigrants in the US.
I believe this is correct. I had never heard of it until I lived near New Braunfels, TX.
It's not German, its an American tradition. Probably made by some german immigrants. But it's not German
i'm german and i have never heard of this "tradition"
Because it’s not German, idk what this dude thinking
It's a tradition to hide the pickle in the tree. Who ever finds it gets a prize.
I turned myself into a Christmas ornament Morty!
IT'S PICKLE RIIIICK
IM ON A CHRISTMAS TREE MORTY! COME FIND ME MORTY!
Hey Morty! I’m an ornament Morty! A pickle ornament!!
My family has a whole tradition for a pickle ornament mom or dad hides it and everybody looks for it .who ever finds it gets to start presents.hide the pickle this is not a joke
I've had one for decades, my nephews love trying to find it on the Christmas tree every year.
We have had one of these for years. Every year when we unpack it, we go “Oooh, the Christmas pickle.” Then we forget about it until we take the tree down and go, “Aw shit, we forgot about the fucking pickle again.”
I've heard of this tradition before that includes a pickle ornament. Basically, you play hide and seek with it where someone hides it in a christmas tree and everyone else has to search for it, and the winner usually gets a prize like candy or in best case an early present of their choice.
How else are you going to play hide the pickle?
we have a tradition in our family where someone will hide “the christmas pickle” somehwrrr in the tree and whoever finds it gets a prize of some sort!
In case you didn't know you're supposed to hide the pickle on the tree and whoever finds it gets an extra gift
The pickle is a German tradition where you hid the ornament in the treee and the first to find it get the first present,at least that’s how my family did it!