Since this is my first thread on my first try-out of internet socializing, I figured I would ask about something I just heard of for the first time today...
Does anybody know why they make Christmas ornaments that are pickles? I've never heard of it and I really don't get it, but I saw it in a magazine today.
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Hi there. Welcome to Mingle 2. With a quick Google search, I found this.. was the context having something to do with being lucky? Hope this helps!

According to some accounts, the tradition of trying to find the little ornament shaped like a pickle which was hidden deep among the green boughs on Christmas Eve, began many years ago in Laschau, Germany. As the story goes, the lucky one who found the ornament on Christmas morning would receive an extra gift from St. Nicholas. If a family could not afford an extra gift, the lucky finder of the pickle was rewarded by being the first to open a present.

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Here's the pickle “legend” from one Web site: “A very old Christmas eve tradition in Germany was to hide a pickle [ornament] deep in the branches of the family Christmas Tree. The parents hung the pickle last after all the other ornaments were in place. In the morning they knew the most observant child would receive an extra gift from St. Nicholas. The first adult who finds the pickle traditionally gets good luck for the whole year.” This Christmas pickle story, with a few minor variations, can be found all over the Web and in print inside the ornament package. It says that Germans hang a pickle-shaped glass ornament on the Christmas tree hidden away so it's difficult to find. The first child to find it on Christmas morning gets a special treat or an extra present.

Of course, anyone familiar with German Christmas customs can see the flaws in this “legend.” First of all, the German St. Nick doesn't show up on Christmas Eve. He arrives on the 5th or 6th of December. Nor do German children open their presents on Christmas morning. That happens on Christmas Eve in Germany. (See our German Christmas Guide for more about German Christmas customs.)

But the biggest problem with the German pickle (saure Gurke, Weihnachtsgurke) tradition is that no one in Germany seems to have ever heard of it. Over the years this question has repeatedly come up on the AATG (German Teachers) forum. Teachers of German in the U.S. and in Europe have never been able to find a native German who has even heard of the pickle legend, much less carried out this Christmas custom. It may have been some German-American invention by someone who wanted to sell more glass ornaments for Christmas. Or could the Weihnachtsgurke be an obscure regional custom that few people are aware of?

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i have never heard of one before.. i even had to look it up

and i found this

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I think I learned more about the Christmas pickle than I needed to know

Yay! Isn't this exciting?!
We all learned something new and very strange today!
And we did it together!
Hooray for us!
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What could be more exciting than PICKLES? Yum Yum Yum

well the wiener got 3 topics

And pickles are known to last longer than wieners!!!

Haha. Hilarious!

is that what they're calling it now

A flying pickle.
'Come, to save the day..'!!

"Hey, I got your Christmas pickle right here."

Sorry couldn't resist

oh my god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
my mother does this!!!!!! we all gather around the tree, to search
for the pickle ornament!!!!! Its actually very hard to spot!
It blends in soooo well!!!!! Its been a tradition for over 8yrs now!
Our "gift", to the one that finds it, is a dollar for every yr
we do it!
corny............yet fun!