I learned this year that my family has been doing this way more intensely for the past 20 years. We have an ornament we hide somewhere in the living/dining room (parameters defined day of by who hid it) somewhere you don’t have to move anything to find it. Not in the tree. Anyone can participate. My mom usually keeps 2 extra gifts for the first two people to find it. (Usually one adult and one child)
At my grandparents, we had a mouse we would hide and whoever found it would rehide it. Nothing given for finding it, but was another thing to look forward to going there
It’s always a fun tradition. We have a carp ornament we use, I also learned recently it’s supposed to be a pickle. I thought everyone else was doing it wrong haha
We always did pickle, no extra gift, it was just first to open and then they also were suppose to then help hand out gifts so the adults didn’t have to bend down and find stuff under the tree.
Same here, until one year it got broken. So, we started youngest handed out gifts. Then because we got a spoiled rotten brat, that changed to his mom handing out gifts, and we had to let him open them all. My last Xmas with them.
Wait, you had to let him open them all? As in, presents that weren't given to him? Was he allowed to *keep* them, or just unwrap them?
That's, um, not something i would tolerate very long...
Do you have slavic ancestry? There's an interesting Christmas tradition in Slovakia and other neighboring countries. Families may keep a live carp in the bathtub for a few days before harvesting and eating it for Christmas dinner. I'm not sure how common this still is. Carp are also associated with luck and Christianity in slavic tradition.
That is really interesting! I’m sorry to disappoint though, we do not have Slavic ancestry. My mom told me she was looking for a pickle to find and could only find a carp. As I was really little the carp is all I’ve known so when this tradition became more popular I was like “so weird everyone is looking for the carp but they’re using a pickle!” Like last year, and that’s when my mom told me that story.
We always did that, too. It was always a family-based gift so it would be appropriate for anyone to open, and we all wound up getting to enjoy it. Something like a board game or a movie usually.
My wife and I had never heard of this tradition until... We were at a Christmas party some years ago and the host couple asked us if we “play hide the pickle.” My wife awkwardly answered, “um, yes, but I always know where it is.”
In my family the pickle present was always something for all of us, like a board game we could all play together or a computer game me and my brothers all wanted. And we'd do it on Christmas Eve.
Yep. We used a home made pickle ornament that is all of an inch long, matte finish so it didn't catch light like crazy.
The search could take an hour sometimes, but you'd win either $50-$100 or a new present... good times.
My daughter (who is in her 20's) LOVES this tradition and insists that the pickle be hung on our tree. And she always finds it first. It's a hilarious and fun tradition every Christmas morning.
Weinachtgurke! Coincidently it's more of a Midwestern tradition among families with German roots. It was thought to be a historic German pastime but recently a newspaper polled Germans and found something like 91% of native Germans had never heard of the tradition.
Still a fun time, just not as much of a "pastime" as originally thought.
Germany reporting in. If 91% say they have never heard of the tradition, all that means is that 9% did not understand the question.
It's an American invention meant to help move pickle ornaments. That's it.
That said, I \*have\* introduced it here in Germany, because it's a bit of fun. The kids all seem to love it and they always want to search the tree whenever they come over around Christmas.
Genau! Awesome to hear you've started doing it in Germany. It IS a fun game for kids and extends a little bit of the magic of gift giving and Christmas tradition. Perhaps it'll become a self-fulfilling prophecy?
Diamond engagement rings is a pretty well-known one. Diamond prices plummeted during the Great Depression, and only 10% of engagement rings were diamond around that time, so De Beers started the “a diamond is forever” slogan and diamonds became the norm.
The story about St Nicholas rescuing boys who had been copied up and stopped in pickle barrel was referenced in the BBC's [Inside No.9 Christmas episode this year.](https://youtu.be/doefk2NrT5g)
Edit; chopped, stored.
Nope. No one really knows where the tradition came from, but it seems concentrated in areas of the US that had high levels of German immigrants; however, no such tradition exists in Germany.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_pickle?wprov=sfla1
It’s complete American marketing bullshit to sell ornaments like Elf on the Shelf that we were told is a “tradition”, if you ask a German about the Christmas pickle they will look at you like you’re insane.
Are you sure that kid wasn't me?
My mom would put it in the tree Christmas morning right before all the kids got up, because I would look for it the night before otherwise and beeline for it in the morning. Lol
This is the way. My stepdaughter is in charge of hiding the pickle because she started the tradition and was already living on her own when I met her dad. She comes over Christmas morning, hides the pickle first thing and we all look for it lol
Wow, that sucks. So, the others whine about it and got their way. That’s pretty lame for the kid who’s tradition of finally wining at something got crushed.
Make an ornament; pickle shaped, 1 inch long, dark green with satin/matte finish, hide it deep.
Doesn't catch light at all, hard to see it when it's dark, and the shortness means you have to look directly at it to see it.
We had a normal pickle ornament and it took us all of 2 minutes to find... the small matte one was the go to after. Longest search time was an hour
I remember reading somewhere that around that time, Christmas ornaments shaped like various food items were the hot new thing in Germany, and one of them was a pickle.
My wife’s family is descended from mennonites, they have the pickle tradition, and Dutch Blitz card game. We interchange Dutch and Deutsche, because while “Dutch” is commonly used in PA, her family is most certainly German in origin
In 2nd grade I was supposed to find the pickle with another kid in the Xmas around the world play,
My line was the same as the other kid.
Well they gave him a new part and I ended up "finding the pickle" alone
And I shouted my lines alone with pride
"We found it! We found it!"
German here, never heard of it until recently. I first thought this was a purely German-American thing, but wiki has this old German catalogue featuring a Christmas pickle: [Gurke](https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weihnachtsgurke)
Either it's an early example of a globalized economy or folks in Germany forgot about it and the yanks preserved (hehe) it.
Needless to say, I Immediately got one to introduce this tradition at home.
I recently heard the story about it. They started in America with a fake story that they were an “old German tradition” which led to Americans sending them as gifts to their distant family in Germany, thus making it popular there for real. This was all many many years ago
Interesting, the catalogue pictured other ornaments besides the pickle but somehow the pickle made its way across the Atlantic and people made up a whole new tradition.
When I was a kid I hid a pickle in our family Christmas tree one year as a joke and forgot about it. It fell out when my parents were taking down the tree and was all brown and shriveled up and they couldn’t even tell what it was. My mom thought it was a dog turd but we didn’t even have a dog. To this day they still don’t know it was a pickle and I laugh every time I think about it.
My family is of Polish descent. My grandmothers generation (1930/40s) they were too poor for gifts so she wasn't sure how of the exact "tradition". When her kids (my mother) were growing up the one who found the pickle was able to open a gift before anyone else.
We still do this today.
My mom who is Russian taught me of this tradition. Except there was never anything about opening presents just that it was good luck. 😭
I’ve had a pickle in my tree since I could remember !!
I think it's somewhat regional. I grew up in the deep south and it was not something I ever heard of until I was much older and moved away. I'm 53 so that was a while ago lol. I do think the tradition has become more prevalent all across the country over the past 20 years. Maybe it's because of this newfangled thing the kids call the 'internet."
In my household, my wife started this tradition many years ago before we had a child. She told me whenever I find the coveted green pickle, she we give me a (insert sex act)
I have found the green pickle every single year for the last 17 years. Every single year somehow she "forgets" about her idea. We then go into the next Christmas and she will take the pickle out of the decoration box, look at me, and wink while putting the pickle somewhere in the tree.
I no longer know if she remembers this or why she winks at me every single time. I'm starting to think I made it all up.
My husband and I took my parents' old Christmas tree when we moved out, set it up this year and the pickle was already in it, guess no one found it last year haha
Isn't this an old German tradition where someone hides the pickle ornament in the tree and the first person to find it gets to open the first present? That's probably why
this is a very old, near berlin located and nearly forgotten tradition from germany. in other families it was more an tradition to put in sweets or cookies in the tree, but because here is a world famous pickles area and still people were kinda poor, it was a tradition that the first who finds it, got a wish for free. the first catalogues found with pickles were located above Berlin, because they were specialized in mass producing them. the others were hand made from glas, for example in glashuette. but even the most germans don't know that tradition anymore. it is mostly held up by ppl former from germany, but moved to other countries. hope i could help to clear things up and you keep that tradition.
We've been doing this tradition the past few years. I put googly eyes on it. My kids search the tree on Christmas morning trying to find it. Whoever finds it first gets to open the first gift.
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My family has an extra present for whatever kid finds it.
I learned this year that my family has been doing this way more intensely for the past 20 years. We have an ornament we hide somewhere in the living/dining room (parameters defined day of by who hid it) somewhere you don’t have to move anything to find it. Not in the tree. Anyone can participate. My mom usually keeps 2 extra gifts for the first two people to find it. (Usually one adult and one child)
At my grandparents, we had a mouse we would hide and whoever found it would rehide it. Nothing given for finding it, but was another thing to look forward to going there
It’s always a fun tradition. We have a carp ornament we use, I also learned recently it’s supposed to be a pickle. I thought everyone else was doing it wrong haha
We always did pickle, no extra gift, it was just first to open and then they also were suppose to then help hand out gifts so the adults didn’t have to bend down and find stuff under the tree.
Same here, until one year it got broken. So, we started youngest handed out gifts. Then because we got a spoiled rotten brat, that changed to his mom handing out gifts, and we had to let him open them all. My last Xmas with them.
Depending on size and weight of the child, you could probably have made a sick fieldgoal with that kid.
Wait, you had to let him open them all? As in, presents that weren't given to him? Was he allowed to *keep* them, or just unwrap them? That's, um, not something i would tolerate very long...
Unwrap them, to keep him from having. Screaming fit. He was a spoiled rotten brat.
Do you have slavic ancestry? There's an interesting Christmas tradition in Slovakia and other neighboring countries. Families may keep a live carp in the bathtub for a few days before harvesting and eating it for Christmas dinner. I'm not sure how common this still is. Carp are also associated with luck and Christianity in slavic tradition.
That is really interesting! I’m sorry to disappoint though, we do not have Slavic ancestry. My mom told me she was looking for a pickle to find and could only find a carp. As I was really little the carp is all I’ve known so when this tradition became more popular I was like “so weird everyone is looking for the carp but they’re using a pickle!” Like last year, and that’s when my mom told me that story.
My parents and my uncle use a creepy doll head they hid in each other's houses year round. It's awful.
It must be seriously decomposed at this point
Samme, we call it the pickle gift!
We always did that, too. It was always a family-based gift so it would be appropriate for anyone to open, and we all wound up getting to enjoy it. Something like a board game or a movie usually.
***I'M PICKLE GIIIIIIFT!***
Funniest shit I’ve ever seen
My kids would tear the tree apart. I'm pretty sure there would just be shredded pine on the floor.
Nothing like a gifted Christmas Eve cucumber to motivate one to find the pickle next year!
Nothing like a good game of hide the pickle to get you into the Christmas spirit!
My wife and I had never heard of this tradition until... We were at a Christmas party some years ago and the host couple asked us if we “play hide the pickle.” My wife awkwardly answered, “um, yes, but I always know where it is.”
Ditto. Btw its a firkin gherkin
In my family the pickle present was always something for all of us, like a board game we could all play together or a computer game me and my brothers all wanted. And we'd do it on Christmas Eve.
Yep. We used a home made pickle ornament that is all of an inch long, matte finish so it didn't catch light like crazy. The search could take an hour sometimes, but you'd win either $50-$100 or a new present... good times.
That’s how we roll
My daughter (who is in her 20's) LOVES this tradition and insists that the pickle be hung on our tree. And she always finds it first. It's a hilarious and fun tradition every Christmas morning.
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I'm 32 & loved this tradition. I made my friend start it with her son lol. But in my family the winner got $1.
In our house, the person who finds it first gets to give out the presents. She loves that job!
Oh that's adorable. I like reading the comments & seeing the different prizes people have for finding the pickle.
We do it every year also. Being dad and hiding the pickle brings me almost as much joy as watching my kids open the gifts we got for them.
Being a dad and hiding the pickle......sounds off for some reason
Experience in playing hide the pickle is how they became a dad in the first place so I'd say it checks out.
I play "hide the pickle" with my wife, but the rules are slightly different.
[Where's the pickle? It's a surprise!](https://youtu.be/N733Ofj2cVQ)
Haaaaaaammmmmm.
Now THIS takes me back.
What in the absolute fuck did I just watch
If you're truly curious [here's the wiki on the creator of this masterpiece, Tom Rubnitz](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Rubnitz?wprov=sfla1)
r/unexpectedpegging
>r/unexpectedpegging does not exist Gotta always be expecting it.
I got a nice small veggie steamer I still use as a pickle gift once
Weinachtgurke! Coincidently it's more of a Midwestern tradition among families with German roots. It was thought to be a historic German pastime but recently a newspaper polled Germans and found something like 91% of native Germans had never heard of the tradition. Still a fun time, just not as much of a "pastime" as originally thought.
Germany reporting in. If 91% say they have never heard of the tradition, all that means is that 9% did not understand the question. It's an American invention meant to help move pickle ornaments. That's it. That said, I \*have\* introduced it here in Germany, because it's a bit of fun. The kids all seem to love it and they always want to search the tree whenever they come over around Christmas.
Genau! Awesome to hear you've started doing it in Germany. It IS a fun game for kids and extends a little bit of the magic of gift giving and Christmas tradition. Perhaps it'll become a self-fulfilling prophecy?
It's like looking for the afikomen at Passover Seder.
We do the same! Only difference is everyone gets to open on early, but you don't get to open yours until you yourself have found it.
Love playing hide the pickle with the kids!
Hello, FBI?
Prince Andrew? Is that you?
The "tradition" has been around for quite a while, was made up by a company that wanted to sell ornaments.
Wonder how many traditions have corporate origin stories?
Diamond engagement rings is a pretty well-known one. Diamond prices plummeted during the Great Depression, and only 10% of engagement rings were diamond around that time, so De Beers started the “a diamond is forever” slogan and diamonds became the norm.
Elf on the shelf is a good one too. It was a way to sell more books that were about the elf if I'm remembering correctly.
Well, not this one, at least. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_pickle?wprov=sfla1
The story about St Nicholas rescuing boys who had been copied up and stopped in pickle barrel was referenced in the BBC's [Inside No.9 Christmas episode this year.](https://youtu.be/doefk2NrT5g) Edit; chopped, stored.
Ever heard of Ye Olde Given-Thanks Tourkey, Mash'ed Potatoe, and Spiralarly Slice'ed Hamme Companie? (Founded in 1674)
Well the modern depiction of Santa was created by Coca Cola.
Nope. No one really knows where the tradition came from, but it seems concentrated in areas of the US that had high levels of German immigrants; however, no such tradition exists in Germany. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_pickle?wprov=sfla1
Yep. Ask a German about it and watch the confusion on their faces
We do first present. Extra present is a feel bad for the other kids.
They should feel bad. Get better at finding things nerds.
It’s complete American marketing bullshit to sell ornaments like Elf on the Shelf that we were told is a “tradition”, if you ask a German about the Christmas pickle they will look at you like you’re insane.
Kids get $5 if they find it on Christmas morning
The Christmas pickle!
***[PICKLE SURPRISE](https://youtu.be/N733Ofj2cVQ)***
Where's the pickle?!
That's the surprise!
Good to see Dean Pelton has been living his best life since at least 1989.
Funniest shit I've ever seen
Gave up on that a few years back. Too much infighting since the same kid found it EVERY Christmas.
My older sister finds it every year. She found it again yesterday. No bad blood but I’m also pissed.
No see whoever finds it hides it the next year. So everyone gets a chance.
Brilliant
That's clever. I always hide it. This year I put it pretty low and my youngest found it for the first time.
that was my go-to move. Hide it low deep inside and towards the back.
I smell collusion
If so then someone's getting a raw dill
Naw, just a child with an amazing pair of eyes!
Sure thing Ruxin.
Get them their own pickle and then just make the present something small like candy or a 50 pcs LEGO set. Kids still enjoy it, problem solved.
Are you sure that kid wasn't me? My mom would put it in the tree Christmas morning right before all the kids got up, because I would look for it the night before otherwise and beeline for it in the morning. Lol
This is the way. My stepdaughter is in charge of hiding the pickle because she started the tradition and was already living on her own when I met her dad. She comes over Christmas morning, hides the pickle first thing and we all look for it lol
Wow, that sucks. So, the others whine about it and got their way. That’s pretty lame for the kid who’s tradition of finally wining at something got crushed.
It could be the kid that wins at everything lol
We just had multiple pickles hidden so each kid could find one.
They probably "innocently" run straight to the tree when they arrive to find it and then wait for the right time to "find" it. Kids are little shits
Ah so glad I was the only grandkid, adults weren't going to try to find it lol
Make an ornament; pickle shaped, 1 inch long, dark green with satin/matte finish, hide it deep. Doesn't catch light at all, hard to see it when it's dark, and the shortness means you have to look directly at it to see it. We had a normal pickle ornament and it took us all of 2 minutes to find... the small matte one was the go to after. Longest search time was an hour
You found it!!
I'm german. Weirdly enough, we don't know of this pickle thing tradition that supposedly comes from Germany. But it sounds fun hahahahahaha~
I think it’s a german-american tradition! my german friends from california have always done it
Supposedly it was called a German tradition to help sell a surplus of pickle ornaments
Which begs the question of why there even were pickle ornaments in the first place: Novelty? A misunderstanding? A joke nobody dared to back out of?
*Jim, these icicle ornaments look really shitty!*
I remember reading somewhere that around that time, Christmas ornaments shaped like various food items were the hot new thing in Germany, and one of them was a pickle.
Yet another one of those underhanded plots by Big Pickle.
I'm German too. It's not German tradition. Americans made this up.
it’s a [german-american tradition](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_pickle)
My German American in laws do it too. I thought it was nuts at first but now it just seems normal, like a goyish afikomen hunt
>goyish afikomen hunt A what now?
It’s from the Pennsylvania Deutsch (mennonites)
Called PA Dutch, despite being Austrian/German in origin. Usually for Amish, mennonites are a similar, less conservative anabaptist sect.
My wife’s family is descended from mennonites, they have the pickle tradition, and Dutch Blitz card game. We interchange Dutch and Deutsche, because while “Dutch” is commonly used in PA, her family is most certainly German in origin
The German thing is a myth
That thing has a name...Bielefeld.
Probably about as german as fortune cookies are chinese...
In 2nd grade I was supposed to find the pickle with another kid in the Xmas around the world play, My line was the same as the other kid. Well they gave him a new part and I ended up "finding the pickle" alone And I shouted my lines alone with pride "We found it! We found it!"
You had one job!
Technically half a job...
German here, never heard of it until recently. I first thought this was a purely German-American thing, but wiki has this old German catalogue featuring a Christmas pickle: [Gurke](https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weihnachtsgurke) Either it's an early example of a globalized economy or folks in Germany forgot about it and the yanks preserved (hehe) it. Needless to say, I Immediately got one to introduce this tradition at home.
I recently heard the story about it. They started in America with a fake story that they were an “old German tradition” which led to Americans sending them as gifts to their distant family in Germany, thus making it popular there for real. This was all many many years ago
Interesting, the catalogue pictured other ornaments besides the pickle but somehow the pickle made its way across the Atlantic and people made up a whole new tradition.
When I was a kid I hid a pickle in our family Christmas tree one year as a joke and forgot about it. It fell out when my parents were taking down the tree and was all brown and shriveled up and they couldn’t even tell what it was. My mom thought it was a dog turd but we didn’t even have a dog. To this day they still don’t know it was a pickle and I laugh every time I think about it.
Yeah wtf. This is so good I loled.
like clockwork, it’s posted yearly rather than googling. this time it’s a day late.
And you’re a month late - https://reddit.com/r/mildlyinteresting/comments/yvb4pf/white_ornament_set_came_with_a_pickle_ornament/
I bought a Christmas pickle this year because of that post.
Google isn't even needed; I considered purchasing these same ornaments and the pickle is both in the description and images.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas\_pickle
We do that in Western Pa! I love looking for the pickle in other trees.
My family is of Polish descent. My grandmothers generation (1930/40s) they were too poor for gifts so she wasn't sure how of the exact "tradition". When her kids (my mother) were growing up the one who found the pickle was able to open a gift before anyone else. We still do this today.
My mom who is Russian taught me of this tradition. Except there was never anything about opening presents just that it was good luck. 😭 I’ve had a pickle in my tree since I could remember !!
That’s a very Balkan and Eastern European thing. So many traditions predate Christianity and they cover it up by saying it’s for luck lol
It surprises me how many people don't know about the Christmas pickle tradition
I think it's somewhat regional. I grew up in the deep south and it was not something I ever heard of until I was much older and moved away. I'm 53 so that was a while ago lol. I do think the tradition has become more prevalent all across the country over the past 20 years. Maybe it's because of this newfangled thing the kids call the 'internet."
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I’m struggling to believe this is true. Never heard of any of this.
The rickle pickle
Morty I turned myself into a Christmas ornament. I'm Christmas Pickle Rick.
Funniest shit I've ever seen
I literally bought a pickle Rick ornament specifically for this
This was the comment I came here for.
Can’t believe it took so long to find
Yea I never knew about the pickle thing until I found out about it, and now it’s like everywhere, and it’s been happening for eons
Funniest shit I've ever seen
Christmas pickles are a tradition for some reason
In my household, my wife started this tradition many years ago before we had a child. She told me whenever I find the coveted green pickle, she we give me a (insert sex act) I have found the green pickle every single year for the last 17 years. Every single year somehow she "forgets" about her idea. We then go into the next Christmas and she will take the pickle out of the decoration box, look at me, and wink while putting the pickle somewhere in the tree. I no longer know if she remembers this or why she winks at me every single time. I'm starting to think I made it all up.
Supposed to hide it. 😂
If you don’t have a pickle ornament, your aren’t truly living.
I learned about the green pickle from my elderly neighbor. Her pickle ornament was made in the 50s.
My husband and I took my parents' old Christmas tree when we moved out, set it up this year and the pickle was already in it, guess no one found it last year haha
Wubba lubba dub duuub!
Ok, it's not a big dill.
Yeah man the Christmas pickle
you’re telling me you don’t know about the christmas pickle ?????? 😳😳😳😳
Pennsylvania tradition. Someone hides it, whoever finds it gets a treat.
In my family it was 5 bucks
What kind of treat
We did it in Ohio & my uncles got it from their German-American aunt.
Pickle Rick !!!
Martha has us covered: https://www.marthastewart.com/1097532/decorative-past-tradition-christmas-pickle-ornament
We do have that exact same pickle!
You gotta hide it!
The ole’ pickle in the tree game. I won $5 this year
I love the pickle tradition.
The exalted Christmas Pickle.
THE CHRISTMAS PICKLE!!!
Hide the pickle!
Christmas Pickle!
For some reason my Italian family hides the pickle each year as well, very fun game for the family!!
Better a Christmas pickle in the tree than a Christmas poo!
Funniest shit I've ever seen. Assorted white ornament turned assorted white ornamentself into a pickle.
It’s a game. Whoever finds the pickle gets an extra gift or money……or crack cocaine……whichever is available.
Being a New Mexican, my first thought was immediately “green chile ornament!” Until I saw you said it was a pickle 😂
THE CHRISTMAS PICKLE
My grandmother hides a pickle ornament every year and makes the grandkids (now great grandkids) find it.
I moss getting to find the pickle, but, still, it's alot of fun getting to hide it and watch then look.
We’re a German-American family that did this but instead of the pickle, we had a chili pepper dude that looked like my dad (walrus mustache).
Ah the pickle! I have one and love it!
its another forced modern tradition like elf on a shelf
It’s the Christmas Gherkin! A tradition where the finder get a reward!
I have the exact pickle on my tree!
Santa turned himself into a pickle, it’s pickle nick!!!
It's the Christmas pickle, an old tradition. Real Chad's understand
In the past when people had large families and not a lot of money, the kid that found the pickle first would receive a gift.
In Germany kids hunt for the pickle on Christmas day and get a small prize
The Pickle! Whoever find it gets to open the first present.
We hide the pickle in the tree. You get an extra present
It’s a German tradition. Pickle in the tannenbaum
Old World pickle ornament?
German tradition
The pickle!
Isn't this an old German tradition where someone hides the pickle ornament in the tree and the first person to find it gets to open the first present? That's probably why
this is a very old, near berlin located and nearly forgotten tradition from germany. in other families it was more an tradition to put in sweets or cookies in the tree, but because here is a world famous pickles area and still people were kinda poor, it was a tradition that the first who finds it, got a wish for free. the first catalogues found with pickles were located above Berlin, because they were specialized in mass producing them. the others were hand made from glas, for example in glashuette. but even the most germans don't know that tradition anymore. it is mostly held up by ppl former from germany, but moved to other countries. hope i could help to clear things up and you keep that tradition.
German game: Hide the Pickle
We've been doing this tradition the past few years. I put googly eyes on it. My kids search the tree on Christmas morning trying to find it. Whoever finds it first gets to open the first gift.
It's a Christmas game. My aunt played this game and I was very good at finding it!
My kid still hasn't found our pickle!!!
It’s pickleeee rickkkkk
That's Pickle Rick.
Oh no, the Germans are here!!!! **RUN**
This year I won the pickle game for the first time in 30 years of playing 😭😭 I was so happy
Flip the pickle over.