But what is the Christmas pickle and where did it come from? Here’s what we know. What is the Christmas pickle? The Christmas pickle, or Weihnachtsgurke, is a holiday tradition where a family member ...

The Christmas pickle is a family tradition, which means it isn’t limited to just kids. And even though it turns out that its ...

One suggestion is the origin of the Christmas pickle ornament may have been developed in the 1890s coinciding with the importation of glass Christmas tree decorations from Germany when Prince ...

A Christmas tree tradition that starts with pierogies rather than picklesI was in my thirties before I learned about the Christmas tradition of hiding the pickle. (No, really.) You hang a pickle ...

A Christmas pickle is a German-American tradition in which a pickle (usually a real one) is hidden in your tree. The first person to find the pickle is allowed to open the first present on ...

Americans like to hang an ornament in the shape of a pickle on their Christmas trees, which is thought to be a German-American tradition going back to the late 19th century.

There’s a reason for that. According to the Christmas Eve tradition of the German Christmas pickle, or Weihnachtsgurke, an ornament in the shape of a gherkin is hung on the tree on Christmas Eve.

Photo by RoseAnna Schick Travel columnist RoseAnna Schick’s Christmas tree has a Christmas pickle hidden within its branches, as is done in some parts of Germany.

On the first day of Christmas my mother always hides a pickle in our pine tree. Do not fear -- the beloved object is not actually a cucumber soaked in pickling juices, but a glass ornament crafted ...