#christmas pickle

[kedreeva]

I have just learned something and now I must see who else doesn't know things

[gummi-stims]

🥒Christmas Pickle🥒

From pilotslime's holiday collection!

[honoringthor]

The Christmas Pickle 🥒 🎄

The pickle is German 🇩🇪 or American, 🇺🇸 we don’t really know. People have asked Germans and polled German Americans and most had no idea it was a thing. I didn’t know about it until I went to college. The pickle was first imported to the US from France 🇫🇷 or Germany.

Christmas pickles can be found in Germany now, maybe because tourism?

You hide a pickle in your Xmas tree and whoever finds it gets an extra gift or good luck.

Berrian springs, Michigan holds a pickle parade and claims to be the pickle capital of the world.

There are multiple legends of the Christmas pickle, all are from the 19th century.

The most popular was a starving Bavarian immigrant, John C Lower, who was fighting in in the American civil war for some reason. He was captured by the confederacy and kept in Ft Sumpter. On Christmas Lower begged for food and was given pickles. He credited this with saving his life so he added hiding a pickle to his Christmas celebration. (Phrasing?). Note the dude was Bavarian American and not Corina tradition from his home land.

Or maybe St. Nicholas saved Spanish kids from a pickle barrel? This one comes from Michigan.

Probably, in my opinion, the most likely is German glassblowers probably from Lauscha, had extra stock the sold to Woolworths.

Sources

Why Christmas

Christmas pickle

Southern living. Christmas pickle

German Way Christmas Pickle

[austinausten]

Not just in the American South - learned about the Christmas pickle at the Whitehern Historic Home tour in downtown Hamilton today.

One of my favourite Christmas traditions - shared between my country of origin and my now home country.

[sspacetravelss]

My lil Christmas pickle 🥒💓

[every-captain]

I do this ootd challenge every year for a month, and the previous record was 19. I've still got a few days to go for that, but I have surpassed my next highest one which was 12 days! :D We're officially the second furthest with this challenge that I've ever been. We got our tree on the 13th!

[the-vegetarian-artist]

thinking about the christmas pickle and how I never ONCE in my LIFE was told what the hell that gherkin has to do with christmas??

[lightless-danny]

Does anybody else on this helsite do the Christmas pickle?

[ominousredherring]

❄️ HLMC December ❄️

Day Fifteen: Does your MC have any traditions? Name one.

Julianna: "Well, since Garreth had brought a tree into my house, which he now does for us every year, I did some research on other traditions and found an interesting one. In Germany, they have a tradition called the Christmas Pickle. While he is away, I hide a pickle (ornament, not an actual pickle) in the tree and watch him search for it. If he finds it, he receives something of his choosing. However, I don't think this was the best of ideas... he finds it every year, and I'm left incredibly sore in bed the very next morning."

[vena-spam]

[dicediceking]

Merry Christmas!!!!

And Happy Holidays!

And here's what it would look like without the ghosts

[discountsurgery]

FINALLY. crismes

[marshmcore]

❄️Dethcones: Icy and Brutal!✨❄️

Happy December!!! The band is posing for a European ad for Dethcones after it helped prevent WW3.

Finally got to draw their different body types and is so much fun :)

(Been seeing many MANY renditions of the original, and WOW what a great opportunity to indulge)

[pan-flute-skeleton]

Winter Wonderklok 2023

Welcome to the first ever Winter Wonderklok! A holiday Metalocalypse themed event leading up to Christmas. Twelve days of prompts instead of gifts for your true love. How zazzy is that! You are free to create anything you want. Make art, write stories, put together playlists, design moodboards and overall, take the time to have fun with it. I know this coming out a smidge early, but I want to make sure everyone has time to relax after kloktober, think and create. I made it a point to try and be as broad as possible because I know not everyone celebrates Christmas. Please feel free to adjust to your standards. As a fan creator myself, I do these things for the fun of it and in a way that fits my style. I encourage you all to do the same. Don’t feel like a certain prompt? Do something else entirely! 

There are a few things I would like to clarify and they go as follows:

What do you mean by ‘Rankin Bass?’ Rankin Bass is the production company that produced all of your favorite Christmas movies like Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer and Santa Claus is Coming to Town. Beautiful puppetry and stop motion pioneers that are cherished to this day. I challenge artists to attempt the style in their own way. Or simply have your character of choice enjoying the specials. However you want to tackle the iconic figures.

What do you mean by ‘Saran wrap ball?’ It’s a type of grab bag game that involves…saran wrap! Who would’ve thought. I will attach a video below for reference on how it’s made and how it’s played. I will say that each house has their own rules so feel free to adjust anything you’d like.

What do you mean by ‘OC Special?’ I am an OC (original character) writer. Many of my friends are too. The few prompts that are labeled ‘OC special’ are meant to encourage use of OCs, interaction with other OCs and even creation of new OCs. I would love for people to take the opportunity to create someone or something new or try something they’ve been meaning to for a while. Challenge yourself! But if that isn’t your style, that’s okay too. If you do not want to use or make an OC, you’re more than welcome to use a canon character of choice instead.

What do you mean by ‘Toys for Tots?’ This is a charity program run by the U.S. Marine Corps Reserve which distributes toys to children whose families cannot afford to buy them for Christmas. Ongoing for over seventy five years and common enough, but just in case anyone needed a reminder.

I encourage you to use #WinterWonderklok2023 when you post your work. Love keeping things organized. Good luck everyone! Can’t wait to see what you can come up with.

I also want to give a huge shout out to @papabigtoes for all the visuals for Wonderklok. I really could not pull this off without her insane art skills. Thank you a million times over my friend!

Plain text list:

Dec 13 Improvised snowman decoration 

Dec 14 Baking cookies

Dec 15 Hot tub in the snow

Dec 16 Black friday*

Dec 17 Everyone gets socks

Dec 18 Lighting candles

Dec 19 Saran wrap ball

Dec 20 Secret Santa with another character*

Dec 21 Dethfam holiday

Dec 22 Rankin Bass

Dec 23 Homemade gift

Dec 24 Toys for tots*

*=OC Special

[s4intpupp]

Baki Christmas Profile Pictures!!!

(Made by me)