Talk:Christmas pickle

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Did you know... that despite the belief that the Christmas pickle tradition originated in Germany, it is generally unknown there?

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I am from Germany, I have never heard of this tradition, nor has any of my friends or family. This seems to be an urban legend. Flups 13:27, 12 Dec 2004 (UTC)

ACK ...Sicherlich ^talk 13:18, 22 Apr 2005 (UTC)

I am from Germany as well, and the "german tradition" is an american invention. See also a nice article of the german bavarian broadcast channel (in german) on this topic. http://www.br-online.de/land-und-leute/artikel/0512/14-weihnachtsgurke/index.xml

Me too! The article should clearly state that it is not a german tradition instead of this "propably" or at least say that it is not a widespread tradition. Very nice. I like it i like Germany too!!!

I am from America and I love Christmas, but I have never heard of this tradition either. --IG-64 17:48, 25 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Wikipedia Sucks[edit]

And this is exactly why. This page redirects to "Christmas Ornament" now, but a CTRL+F for "pickle" turns up nothing on that page. Wikipedia has a tendency to do this. Let's redirect to something that has nothing to do with the topic, and doesn't explain it at all! If you're going to make a redirect, at least make sure the page you're sending me to ACTUALLY HAS INFORMATION ON THE TOPIC!! Good lord this place is stupid. And it gets worse every day. --Buddy13 (talk) 05:06, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

There, I "fixed" it. If you don't like it, at least try to have a discussion before just deleting/redirecting things for no reason. I know I've just done something horribly outside the bureaucracy of Wikipedia, but I'm being bold, something that is encouraged in theory and frowned upon in practice. So we'll see how long this page lasts before being removed without discussion again. --Buddy13 (talk) 05:13, 19 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

NOT a German tradition at all.[edit]

Of course, Americans also hang pizza that looks like it exploded onto their trees. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 65.95.145.6 (talk) 23:03, 15 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Editors keep removing a line from the lead clarifing that this is not a German tradition. It's already cited in the article, but they keep removing it from the lead. I've restored it once again. Miyagawa (talk) 17:37, 16 November 2013 (UTC)[reply]

My folks are from Germany and they were raised in the Southern parts with this tradition. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.163.231.177 (talk) 17:30, 18 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

And my folks are also from the southern parts of germany, and never heard of this tradition. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2003:DA:6F2C:EA57:911C:D353:D713:42BB (talk) 09:42, 21 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]

REPLY No, this is a very real tradition. Not sure why they are saying that it is German, but here in America my family has practiced the christmas pickle for as long as I can remember.

German Christmas pickles exist![edit]

On the German version of this page, de:Weihnachtsgurke, there is a picture of a catalogue from 1909 by a German company, including said item. They are also sold in Germany - I bought one on Nuremberg's Christkindlmarkt last year. Alossola (talk) 10:11, 17 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Of course it does exists. But it is no German tradition. Maybe the catalogue was from a German company for the American market. They sell it in some German shops or christmas markets for the (american) tourists. In a tv-show a clerk from the Weihnachtsdorf (Christmas Village) in Rothenburg ob der Tauber said they began to offer that "Christmas pickles" only--Frances K. (talk) 22:17, 1 January 2021 (UTC) because American tourists asked for it.[reply]

Christmas Traditions of gift winning or good fortune[edit]

There are a few christmas and yule traditions that involve one party winning a prize or gift, or good fortune, such as the german-american christmas pickle and scandinavian almond gift/almond prize. Might it be prudent to link such instances, or perhaps write a paragraph on their comparison?

- The Yule Enthusiast 80.162.26.181 (talk) 10:55, 9 December 2022 (UTC)[reply]

I know of such prizes, but I fail to include them here. You have any proof (and online reference) of that? Alossola (talk) 18:46, 28 March 2023 (UTC)[reply]