Apparently many Americans follow the ‘German’ tradition of hiding a single pickle in their Christmas tree. Whoever finds it gets an extra gift. There’s just one problem – most Germans have never heard of this custom! So is putting a pickle in your Christmas tree really an ancient German tradition? Euromaxx reporter Hallie Rawlinson set off to solve the mystery of the Christmas pickle.
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Have you ever heard of the Christmas pickle? What are some interesting Christmas traditions in your country?
Sowas gibt es nicht in deutschland
I live in Canada and I was adopted by a Dutch family and we do it every year and my parents hide it in the house and me and my siblings search for it and the winner get 50$$
This aint german lol
She made this up. I’m American and never heard of this in my life 😂 Nobody knows what’s she’s talking about.
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a Christmas pickle is not a German Tradition and never was!!!
I was born and raised in the USA and never heard of a Christmas pickle.
do the garlic, vs vampires one from romania next! bro im sick of you westoids allways asking me whats the deal whit the garlic and vampires
i am from germany, i thought it is an american tradition? 🤣
this is like japanese people being convinced by a marketing ad that american's eat KFC for christmas and now they have to make reservations at KFC in Tokyo
I'm Irish
I put a pickle on my tree
My daughter asked me to search for a Christmas pickle for her highschool best friend.. so I'm looking up origins to find the best one.
The Christmas ornament maker, his dad DID have a mold.. sooo. I want one of his.
How do I contact him. ?
Sounds very Irish, invent a tradition that no one has ever heard of or care about and make a documentary about it……Slan libh anois…
We've been hanging them up on the tree in our family for 50 years. My family is primarily English and High German but apparently, it began with my Great Grandmother's family in 1898 in Ohio.
The Christmas pickle is about as German as spaghetti and meatballs are Italian….
I fell for it when I saw an ornament in 2014 with the German tradition on it 😂 I’m happy to report that all the small kids in my family have enjoyed hunting for the pickle. We’ll keep it. Super cute outfit!!!
I reckon there are a few traditions that start like this: in order to justify a weird new custom, it will be claimed that it is already a tradition elsewhere. In Canada, the Minister of Finance traditionally wears brand new shoes on the day that the budget is presented to Parliament. It's been presented as a British tradition that was inherited alongside the Westminster system. But there is no such tradition in the UK. It's completely made-up, and purely Canadian; it's not even that old, but it's just become part of the established practices.
I'm a 52 year old german, and I have absolutely no idea what you're talking about? What is a christmas pickle?
Some americans told me about this "Xmas pickle" being a german tradition. Also never heard of it and first thought that they made it up. Good that DW made a vid out of it.
I'm German and my aunt did it once. She hid a large cucumber in the three because my Cousins and I were always fighting who can open the first present. So this was a simple solution🥴
Pickle rick………!
I've got a "special" German Pickle for her! I love red heads 😍
Unbelievable how beautiful you are! Greetings from Ludwigsburg. But never heard from this "tradition"
Noch nie davon gehört.
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We don't have the Christmas pickles, but we have the Weihnachts Pickel (Christmas pimple). That comes after the ton of chocolate that is eaten at Christmas. 🤣🤣🤣
It‘s definitely no German tradition, maybe English?