A green glitter pickle, by Cody Foster & Co, topped with a small silver cap and hung from a gold cord, ready to disappear into the branches for one of the season's more lighthearted traditions.
The Christmas pickle is widely described as a German-American custom, in which an ornamental pickle is placed among the tree's decorations rather than displayed in plain sight. Families hide it sometime before December 25, and the first person to spot it tucked in the branches on Christmas morning is said to receive some kind of reward, which makes it as much a game as it is a decoration.
Cody Foster & Co. makes its ornaments in Valentine, Nebraska, a small town in the Sand Hills, where Cody Foster started the company while still in high school, with his mother on board as his first business partner. The two have kept it a small, family-run operation ever since, even as the line of holiday pieces has grown well beyond that first batch of ornaments.
Details:
- Size: 2.25" long
- Material: Glass
