The real story behind your family's favorite (and perhaps strangest) Christmas tradition.
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The Story Behind the Christmas Pickle Tradition
There are hundreds of Christmas traditions that are practiced each year — and even more special family traditions — but none are as widely celebrated as the tradition of the Christmas pickle. Remember the pickle ornament that hangs on your Christmas tree?
If you’ve never heard of the Christmas pickle it’s not just some strange ornament you hang on your culinary friends’ tree. It’s a tradition that’s been passed down through generations.
Every year the Christmas pickle is the last ornament hung on the tree hidden in the green boughs — or in my family’s case it’s hidden again on Christmas Eve to prevent cheating. Then the first child to find the pickle on Christmas morning gets a special treat or gets to open the first present. It’s also said that whoever finds the pickle will have good luck in the coming year.
