Do you play hide the pickle?

[L107ANGEL]

Hi, I'm a 12 year old boy hiding in a 41 year old woman's body. I just HOWLED at that thread title(my brain is firmly in the gutter)! But yes, we've done this for years.

 

[sweet angel]

Hi, I'm a 12 year old boy hiding in a 41 year old woman's body. I just HOWLED at that thread title(my brain is firmly in the gutter)! But yes, we've done this for years.

OMG...me too! Only I'm 40 and have never done it. I have heard of it though.

 

[joats]

Yup, we have for the bast 5 years or so. We only let the kids do the searching -but they have a ball.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Hi, I'm a 12 year old boy hiding in a 41 year old woman's body. I just HOWLED at that thread title(my brain is firmly in the gutter)! But yes, we've done this for years.

Change your post to 13yo boy hiding in the body of a 46yo woman (or should I say, 7th anniversary of my 39th birthday... ) and I could have written your post.

 

[Duckfan-in-Chicago]

I wasn't saying WDW came up with it, it's just strange that hey advertise it as a German custom and no one from Germany seems to know what in the world they're talking about.

I didn't think you were...I just thought that they HAD to know the truth with all those people working there from Germany but not afraid to push the product anyway. I heard of the pickle before Epcot. I have a bunch of German friends and there's a pretty strong German pop. in Chicago. Just giving a little more info.

 

[poohandwendy]

My DH and I play that game. I always get the present.

 

[disneymama73]

My DH and I play that game. I always get the present.

 

[spazzyjazzy]

I can't stop giggling from reading the title of the post....
My mind is totally in the gutter so early this lovely Sunday morning. But, I am glad that I am not the only one who has it there either.

 

[bavaria]

I didn't think you were...I just thought that they HAD to know the truth with all those people working there from Germany but not afraid to push the product anyway. I heard of the pickle before Epcot. I have a bunch of German friends and there's a pretty strong German pop. in Chicago. Just giving a little more info.

Hello, German here. We never had a pickle; my family is from eastern Germany and the north, but lived in Bavaria for a long time. Nor have any of the German CMs that I talked to at the German pavilion heard about the pickle other than the pickle tree.

Luckily I knew about the pickle as a friend very proudly gave me a pickle from Crate and Barrel a few years ago, and I knew how to respond. (And isn't Crate and Barrel from Chicago originally, which may lend credence to Duckfan's comment that it may come from German Americans who lived in Chicago, and brought it from their home region)

Note however that just because so few people have heard about the pickle doesn't mean that it doesn't exist. Germany is a very large country (and used to be even larger) and was simply a collection of principalities until the late 1800's. That means that there are very large variations in language, food, etc. In fact, there are over 20 words for things like 'donut'

Just look at Krampus - I went to post-secondary school 25km from where we used to live in Bavaria, and discovered Krampus (on Dec 5 and 6). I asked all my family why we had never heard of Krampus before, and they thought that I was nuts. It is very specific to a small area around Salzburg, on both sides of the border. Yet almost every German I have ever asked doesn't know about Krampus, and I have to keep finding websites to prove that he exists in local culture.....

(and BTW, there used to be a great book on German holiday tradition in the German pavilion; they no longer sell it, but it DID mention Krampus but no pickle)

 

[malibuconlee]

We have the ornament, but don't have kids. We've given several to friends with kids and they do buy the extra gift. I think it's great!!! My mom became a collector of antique ornaments when I was in high school and after. We dot our first pickle when I was about 19, so we never engaged in the tradition either.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

My DH and I play that game. I always get the present.

Feeling snarky today?

 

[Pam]

My DH and I play that game. I always get the present.

Dill or Sweet Gherkin??

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Dill or Sweet Gherkin??

You forgot sour. Bread and butter?

 

[MosMom]

Look at you all taking my completely innocent post and turning it into trash. I'm shocked. Truly shocked.

 

[disneymama73]

 

[poohandwendy]

Dill or Sweet Gherkin??

Zesty Dill....

 

[poohandwendy]

Feeling snarky today?

Yeah, it's a snarky day.

 

[Pam]

Look at you all taking my completely innocent post and turning it into trash. I'm shocked. Truly shocked.

Yeah - sorry. We keep forgetting that Saint MosMom posts here.

We're contrite - please forgive us Saint MosMom.

 

[Tigger&Belle]

Yeah, it's a snarky day.

You mean snarky month? This is T&B you're talking to, Ms Snarkmeister.

zesty dill....


MosMom, I'm sorry. Too much WPASADI...my brain is fried and I needed a laugh.

 

[tevagirl]

I don't like that game.