5 LIES THE USA TOLD ME ABOUT GERMANY | The infamous German pickle 🇩🇪🥒

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00:00 Lies the USA told me about Germany
01:08 German sausages | The German "hotdog"
03:28 German style | How Germans dress
06:22 German Christmas pickle
09:36 German language
11:07 Germans are emotionless
13:15 Thank you for watching and don't forget to subscribe
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[@HayleyAlexis]

Sprinkling a little light-hearted fun into your Saturday ✨ Have you ever heard of the German Christmas pickle? 🥒 Is it a tradition in your household?

[@marcuszaja6589]

Never heard of that in my 47 years 😂.

[@hansmuller3604]

Almost 60 year german here. Never heard of the pickle

[@danny80867]

No Beauty, its not :) Best regards from Hamburg 🙋🏻‍♂️😊

[@peterpritzl3354]

I am 71, born and raised in Munich, retired on Maui. Nope, we never had pickles hanging on our tree. Just ornaments, Lametta, and live burning candles on a 7' tree. Those were the days of our golden childhoods. They nearly seduced me into their religion, but, fortunately I woke up to realty before, just in time.

[@AnnaLee33]

No, never! My family comes from Bavaria and Westphalia (up North) and we've never heard of it before!

[@MandyMC2]

I am 48 years old now and came from a very traditional german family , never in my life I heard about christmas pickles 🎅🏼 🥒 😂 Wish you and your loved ones a happy, healthy new year 🎉❤🍀

[@gluteusmaximus1657]

American tourists at the Nuremberg christmas market asked for this kind of decoration. Until the clever folks got them produced and could sell them to the Amis. Still no traditional pickle on german christmas trees. Maybe we should uphold the american christmas tradition and dress up as flamingos on christmas eve. ;-)

[@memories511]

Me either , that sounds silly.

[@DickTechno]

Ich bin bin auch aus einer sehr Traditionellen Familie und kenne das auch nicht , gibt es Schützenvereine in den USA?

[@insightsbyjackie]

I have been in Germany for over 30years and this is the first time that I have heard about “German pickle”😂😂😂

[@HayleyAlexis]

The picture I showed in the video is literally from Amazon and the box says “a German tradition”…. It is so crazy to me that it is a lie 🤣🤣🤣🫠🫠 so many people have told me it’s a German tradition 🙃🙃

[@insightsbyjackie]

@@HayleyAlexis really? Then my German ex-husband and his family were not German enough😂😂😂

[@waytosacramento3843]

I am German, and I can confirm: there is no such tradition, nor has it ever been. But cudos to the guy who sells this myth to Americans! 😂😂😂

[@mok244]

Same with me. Never herad of it. But: My polish wife said, that its actually a polish tradition ...

[@LFT66]

@insightsbyjackie Same here! I grew up in a 2nd generation German family in the US and we never put a pickle in our tree 😂 and I’ve been living in Germany since 1989 and have not come across a Christmas pickle yet.

[@Meowlein]

Honestly, the german pickle thing does sound fun. Maybe we should actually do that in germany and call it an american tradition. 😂

[@xjrlionheart4423]

😆👍

[@calise8783]

My German family ( through my German husband) specifically asked me about this strange Christmas pickle. They told me, “Supposedly we Germans have a Christmas pickle? But we have never heard of this!” 😂

[@barbarafrings9231]

I'm 59 and had never heard about the Christmas pickle until a few years ago (Internet). Liebe Grüße aus Rheinland-Pfalz und ein schönes Wochenende. 😃

[@ShingenCat]

The German Christmas pickle??? ... I can't stop laughing! 😂😂 I like your videos!👍🙂

[@Attirbful]

The German Christmas pickle is an American urban myth much like the spider in the Yucca plant… Actually, chances to find a spider in a Yucca plant are exponentially bigger than ever finding a pickle on a German Christmas tree… The one guy seeing this in Germany and bringing it back to America, might have stumbled into the one family in Germany that had this as their very bizarre family tradition (maybe they were pickle farmers) and he simply mistook it as a German custom.

[@peterkoller3761]

pickle ranchers ;)

[@Attirbful]

@@peterkoller3761 Heehaw! LOL

[@katharina819]

​@@Attirbful yes, I think that sounds very logical 👍🏻😊

My guess is that some german immigrants thought it up as a practical joke, as a hoax, on their new compatriots. ;-)

[@K__a__M__I]

Von zu viel Plätzchen und Schokolebkuchen krieg ich schon manchmal die Weihnachtspickel... 😐

[@peterkoller3761]

ich auch: einen riiiiiesigen unterhalb des Brustkorbs - nicht mal die Hose geht noch zu...

[@lhuras.]

​@@peterkoller3761 das wäre dann der perfekte Moment für Jogginghosen 😂

[@cadeeja.]

I have heard from the German pickle... from every American ever ;) On a (little) more serious note: the first Germans got to America in the mid 1600s, I think? Maybe there was someone from Spreewald (infamous pickeled Gurken region) und dann the story started ;) Who knows ^^

[@maikejahn9130]

Maybe one of the German migrants pranked their new American family with their Spreewald Gurke and it caught on. 😅 Like: "Ja, trust me EVERYONE in Germany hides pickles in their tree."🤣

[@user-sm3xq5ob5d]

Might as well be a clever marketing ruse to sell glass ornaments?

[@Kokuswolf]

2:44 That's a danish Hotdog, but with Sauerkraut. My danish neighbors already converted me to the true danish Hotdog. (Glad my poodle can't read.)

[@kristinwilson8022]

The emotional thing I can just sign... I remember being in CA, I just thought most of the people I met, asked "how you are", but weren't really interested in a real answer. Superfriendly but also often superficial. My husband was surprised when one of the first evenings in Germany in a bar he talked "drunk" with someone about music, the guy he talked to threw the next day a tape into our mailbox so my husband could listen to it... My husband was so surpised that the guy actually remembered and took his time and drop of a tape. He said that would never ever happend in Chico. Sometimes the persons you talked to in Chico didn't even bother to say hello on the next night. And it is also way harder for my husband to express his feelings than for me. I thought it is a personality thing but he also said Germans are way more open to express what they really think and feel and he had to get used to it.

[@nununununusch]

I am german and I never heard of this Christmas pickle thing😅

[@jennywells416]

German/American here. I grew up in Germany and lived there until i was 33 and now have been living in the US for almost 9 years. I absolutely agree with everything you say.. it took me a looong time to find an actual German butcher that makes great German sausages and i cringe when i see an American brat on a very soft roll with sauerkraut and grainy mustard and call it a German dish.. it is not. If you enjoy it good for you but please don't call it a german dish just because it has a bunch of somewhat german components. 🙄 And the pickle.. don't get me started.. I have never seen a pickle in anyone's tree until we saw it in the US. It is very much an American made tradition.😂 Emotions.. yes we do have emotions. Just go to any german Fußball stadium and you will see. Also living in the US now i noticed that a lot of American don't like to hear the truth and that is one of the reasons why they say germans are rude. We are just not as fake and tell it the way it is. Also we don’t tell everyone we love them after a few minutes just because we might have had a fun evening. And then never want to even meet up again.😂 Two things you didn't mention on you list is one.. that germans eat warm/hot potato salad.. like what? I own a store and for our anniversaries i have made my Oma's potato salad and the amount of Americans asking me why my salad was cold or told me that that is not german potato salad because german potato salad is hot drove me insane. So now i don't make it anymore because I'm just sick of Americans that never even left their state tell me what german is.. and second german chocolate cake.. sooo many people have brought me german chocolate cake because they thought it would make me happy that they made or bought a german chocolate cake.🤯🤯🤯 it is not german. Never had it until moving to the US. And i don't like it at all.. its just a typical over sugared US cake. I really got annoyed at one point so i researched why Americans think that.. come to find out that a guy with the lastname German made baking chocolate so his brand name is Baker's Germans chocolate. 🤦🏼‍♀️ nothing german about it. I mean i get it somewhat. Because most Americans only know of "german" traditions from their ancestors because they've never lived or even been to Germany. But those have long been gone or never even existed. Some possibly where started by those families after coming to the US and because they're family was german the generations after think all of Germany must be like that. But its not. I was born in 81 and never came across these things until moving to the US. Don't get me wrong.. i love hearing everyone's tradition and such.. but please don't tell me I'm wrong and you are right when you've never even stepped foot into Germany because that is really annoying. 🙄

[@kristinwilson8022]

😂 I am married to an American from CA this year 20 years and the "German chocolate cake" is still a running Gag. Because his family also always wanted to bring me this cake. Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte, Sachertorte etc... So many more cakes which would be typical but not this German chocolate cake which is basically just a huge brownie 😂

[@jennywells416]

@@kristinwilson8022 😂😂😂 exactly 😂😂

[@papillon232]

Mit der Weihnachtsgurke kannst du im Spreewald sicher gut punkten.🥒

[@annkathrinhanamond2982]

My guess: I think the pickle thing is something some German immigrants in America (or even just Americans with German heritage generations ago) started, where it spread as "Those Germans do this". And as it gets known as "something German", American families think their grand-grand-grandmother brought this tradition from Germany because the thought "This tradition is German? Grand-grand-grandmother is German? She must have brought it!" is easier to get than "German grand-grand-grandmother just saw her also German-American neighbors do that" The only reasons German know this tradition at all are all those articles about AMERICANS doing this (and thinking it was German) :D

[@corinnaliebergesell5773]

I agree... I also can't imagine that German immigrants, especially those with less money, hide green food in a green tree to be found someday?

[@joannunemaker6332]

Happy New Year to you also. I hope you feel better soon. The weather has been so crazy, everyone is getting sick. You talking about the sausage with bread really makes me want some real German bread. It's so good! Oh, and the pickle thing, a friend at work years ago gave me the German pickle. My mom's side of the family is very German, but we've never heard of it. Maybe it was a certain region, I don't know.😊❤

[@chkoha6462]

First time I ever saw the German Christmas Pickle was in a Christmas themed store in Estes Park,Colorado.I was a bit surprised to learn about this 'tradion'😂

[@HayleyAlexis]

I think the funniest part is that we write “German tradition” everywhere on the packaging 😭🫢🤭

[@chkoha6462]

@@HayleyAlexis next to award winning 🏆

[@alexia84ful]

German pickle is a tradition in a very small area in germany. I have one I got as a gift.

[@80Cere42]

My sister has one of those pickles on her Christmas tree...but she brought it back from a trip to the US because she thought is was hilarious 😂 Life imitating rumor.

[@bearoflight]

About Christmas Pickels: I was born in 1968 and come from a family of restaurateurs, we know a lot of people from all parts of Germany, this video was the very first time I heard about it.

[@ViviNorthbell]

hi Hayley, and happy new year. I am an older lady and I have never heard of a christmas pickle. lol

[@skinnyjohnsen]

Happy new year :-)

[@magnoliarose3352]

Hallo Hayley😀 Happy New Year bleibt wie du bist 😊

[@HayleyAlexis]

🥹❤️

[@cdnest]

I think that a German grandmother who immigrated to the US a long time ago had a *family* tradition of hiding this pickle in the Christmas tree and the first person to find it gets to open the first gift. Unfortunately, as a German, I am completely unfamiliar with this special family tradition; it was certainly something very private, from just one family.

[@CreativepreneurJourney]

Wow Christmas 🎄 pickle!!! I never heard of that.

[@igel9581]

Liebe Hayley, vielen Dank für Deine zahlreichen interessanten Videos! Wir haben auch noch nie von der Tradition der 'german pickles' gehört. Herzliche Grüße aus Deutschland nach Florida!

[@fritzieschomaker1476]

I remember the first time a friend asked me about the pickle in the Christmas tree, I was so confused (so was she, I guess). So amusing!

[@eastfrisianguy]

Gute Besserung und frohes neues Jahr 🙂My parents, at least on my father's side can be traced back to 1720 and there was never a Christmas Pickle involved. Until my grandparents' generation there was no Christmas tree either, I found the first photo with one in 1938 (but we also live in an area with hardly any woodland, which is different in other regions). And I totally agree with you about the clothes, that's how I was brought up too. I know it's a bit different nowadays, even in Germany, but I would never have been allowed to wear sweatpants to school. Even when I'm visible at work via webcam at meetings in my home office, I wear a business shirt and take great care to be well-groomed 😂But yes, if I'm sick and visiting the doctor or just picking up something from the gas station late at night, then sweatpants are perfectly fine for me (even if I'm traveling across Germany by train despite 1st class, I want to be comfortable) 😂 When it comes to food, I also think that many Americans would be critical of our supposedly "American" food because it's not necessarily authentic. 🤣 Anyone who finds the German language harsh has never heard a German say "Tschüüüüüß!" or "Schatzi!" 🤣

[@Wlf5953]

Happy New year to you too! That’s hilarious,German pickle. Never heard of that one,but that alligator you can see in the periphery, NO! Cheers

[@peterdoe2617]

Happy new year, Haley! I'm german. Living in Germany. And we DO have a pickle in our christmas tree! But only since I met my american wife (in the US) and she told me about it. We looked up the history of the story (quite hilarious) and decided to buy one at Lowe's. To find out: it was produced in Germany! So now I can prodly announce that we are one of the 0,001% of familys in Germany to have one! Talking sausages: there are names like "Weißwurst" or "Thüringer Rostbratwurst" which (I guess) you need to qualify for, to be allowed to brand your product with this title. But of course no such thing as a "german Bratwurst". Making sausages is a form of art. Give the same recipe to 2 different chefs: you'll get 2 different results. It's called cooking ;-) Get a "general Tso's chicken" from 2 different restaurants: even when both are well made, they will be different. Are burgers all the same? My best bet: The Cow. One restaurant in Edmond, one in OK City. If you're looking for fantastic burgers and out-of-this-world onion rings (I still try to replicate that recipe): that's the place to go! (Sidenote: I once mentioned it to cowboy Kent Rollins. And even he had heard of that place.) Greetings from Tangstedt!

[@nikebordom]

Hello fellow "pickle-ornament-in-the-christmas-tree" person! My bf and I did it as a joke this year, and I never heard of it before Hayley mentioned it in this video. So now there are already 2 German families pickling their tree 😄

[@DADA-ir6kq]

you can now get the pickle ornaments in germany as well. i think Depot sold them

[@kiliipower355]

Christmas cucumber! A commentator looked into the matter in another video. Apparently it was a sales ploy by Woolworth's at the time to get rid of the slow seller. And since we more or less invented Christmas, shoppers believed the story about the "German tradition". Apparently it worked very well.

[@HayleyAlexis]

Oh it has. Maybe I will start the tradition in my home 🤣

[@lenakohl2339]

Well, you can find ornaments that are shaped like a pickled cucumber in Germany, and asaik, not only today, but they existed decades ago. We even had one in the Soviet Union. But I never heard of the tradition of searching for it.

[@dariahelck3662]

Hey! I am German and living in Braunschweig and my Bestie giftet me a pickle 2 years ago. She told me, that this is a tradition and I saw the pickles every year I went to the Christmas Market and didn’t know for what they’re good for. So we had a pickle in a tree last Christmas and it was fun. I made a Pickle Cup for the winner and my family loved it.

[@HayleyAlexis]

I might do this next Christmas if I get a bigger tree!

[@maxpower3279]

Hi, Haley. Greetings from Vienna Austria. Semmel is correct ;)

[@qazatqazah]

Greetings from Utrecht, The Netherlands. We can buy the same type of Semmel here, but here they are called Kaiserbrötchen.

[@himmel-erdeundzuruck5682]

Just to think to compare bavarian with frisian and say that the accent were the same 😂😂😂 But ok, if they only know us from TV, they'll only know hochdeutsch. Btw. your little munich-accent american english is quite nice 🤗

[@Haan-o_o]

Funny, this is the first time I've heard that we hang cucumbers on the Christmastree.

[@mommakittydragon8926]

hey, here in Niedersachsen it's often called abend bröchen ;)

[@herbertthoma6670]

I am German and know about the pickle, but I learned about it in the US. We Never had one on our christmas tree.

[@bendjohans3863]

its not that easy to make friends in germany but when you do you got a friend for life ... i found out that its easy to be friends with most americans but most are good weather friends which are gone when times get tough

[@12cowwoman]

My family has the pickle in the tree - for over 60 years , so you're good!

[@thato596]

heyley is naturally beautiful, her hair is beautiful

[@jessicaely2521]

The Christmas pickle was a German thing (supposedly), but it was long long long before any of us were born. Its from the 1500's. It stopped being a thing in Germany in the 1700's.

[@zwiderwurzn5908]

Und wo haben die den Pickel hingehängt? Der Weihnachtsbaum stammt aus dem 19. Jahrhundert.

[@TheUlli1964]

My Family back to my grand-grand-grand-grand-ect parents never had this pickle tradition.

[@Kokuswolf]

The thing with the directness is, you can do it on us germans too. Like asking for their feelings and get a real answer. It's not a one sided thing.

[@scarba]

Hayley I was Christmas shopping and saw a woman in what looked like to me a Fasching costume and was extremely confused at this crazy woman and then I spotted her in a shop and heard her in an American accent and realized she was wearing a onesie Pyjama. How she could have done that in Germany I don’t know?! She just looked insane wearing a teddy bear costume or whatever animal it was. People in Germany dress appropriately for the weather which is more important than looking sexy or whatever. It’s very rare to see high heels here for example. I prefer the down to earth style of Germany.

[@HayleyAlexis]

I do think that is also a difference between the USA and Germany- the high heels are still very popular in the USA and in my opinion- Germany has sortuve left this fashion choice behind or it is not as popular....

[@scarba]

@@HayleyAlexis at least it wasn’t a onesie AND high heels 👠

[@HayleyAlexis]

@@scarba that would be HORRIBLE!

[@scarba]

@@HayleyAlexis haha 😂 I agree

[@vstarannie]

I've heard about the Christmas Pickle. Even when I lived in Germany in the 70s and throughout my life. I've also seen the Pickle Christmas ornament in the USA.

[@jennywells416]

Would ne interesting to know where in Germany you lived. Because I've never heard of it or seen it. I was born there on 81, my mom born on 62 never heard of it and my Oma born is 28 never heard of it either. So it definitely wasn't a tradition in our home.

[@henryheinrich6581]

On my 64 years of living in the west of Germany, I have never seen pickles on a Christmas tree. That's complete nonsense, and is one of the fables about Germany. 😇👍👍👍👍👍🙏

[@bendjohans3863]

hahahaha rolls over laughing ... the pickle really got me ;D yes its not a tradition here but its funny usually the only think hidden in the xmas tree is a cat if one is in the house ;D

[@21_f_aus]

I have German Ancestry and since I met that side of ny family I haven't heard anything about this "german pickle tradition" it's so weird, and my cousins grandparents who passed away in the last 3 or so years never spoke of the "german pickle tradition" either, 🤷🏼‍♀️

[@estherdesiree521]

Hello Hayley, I'm from Germany and have loved your videos for years. Today was again very entertaining. Personally, I have never heard of traditional German pickles on the Christmas tree, but I was at Weko a week ago and you could actually buy a pickle there as a Christmas tree decoration. Could you perhaps film and show an alligator like this? I can't even imagine what it's like to live with such wild animals. Would you like to tell us a little bit about it? Gutes Neues!

[@OUBobcat08]

I was Christmas pickles at the Nürnberg Christmas Market this year and I was cracking up. I am an American who grew up with the Christmas pickle tradition. Now i live in Germany and my pickle is on the tree every year.

[@coffeetostay7136]

As a German I really appreciate this. Keep spreading the truth, Hayley! 😉No, seriously, thank you. Also, that American Christmas pickle tradtition sounds nice, maybe we should adopt that over here 😁

[@Thorium_Th]

13:40 Being German, I call myself lucky seeing a cute squirrel or even a deer near my window but you are looking at an alligator??? 🐊😭 That is so amazing.

[@davenwin1973]

As an American in Indiana, i never heard of the Christmas pickle until a few years ago. My maternal grandmother, who was of German descent from her mother, and her dad, Slovak, and this was never mention in her family. As a kid, her grandchildren were never to touch her tree, as it was huge, and real. She never had any ornaments that even resembled a pickle. She did have one of those Christmas pyramids, as it was called in English (dont know the German word, but thd one my grandma had all text in German.

[@FlaneurSolitaire]

Re: the pickle situation. I guess what might have happened is that this tradition was invented and popularized at some point, possibly in the early to mid 20th century, within the German community in the US. But as a German, I can categorically say, I had never even heard about it, let alone met anybody in Germany who thought it was a German tradition.

[@Nikioko]

2:12: That's a Kaiserbrötchen. As opposed to Schnittbrötchen.

[@alis098]

I am from Germany and I've heard of the pickle a few years ago on TV as a funny story from America. If the pickle is a German thing it is a regional tradition and was not very popular.

[@ritagiffin9403]

Ich bin nicht aufgewachsen with a Xmas gurke and I am 71.But l researching it yes they found molds from the 16 hundreds

[@linibellini]

I’ve always thought the pickle tradition was a British or American thing 😂 I’ve never seen it here in Germany or heard of it until maybe some 10-15 years ago. Now those weird pickles are sold in more and more shops. I’m from Berlin and have relatives in the Black Forest. In neither of those regions this is a tradition and we also never had a pickle on the tree in my childhood, nor do my parents who are in their 70s remember any such things from their childhood.

[@ehmha3641]

3:28 I can easily spot the germans and americans when being abroad just by the way they dress😂

[@nobodx]

To be fair, the area I live in (NRW), that type of Brötchen is called Kaisersemmel ;)

[@katikeller1120]

Kaisersemmel kommt aus Österreich und wurde, während der K&K Zeit, eben nach dem österreichischen Kaiser benannt. Die Bayern sagen Semmel. Die Würtemberger und Franken Wecken bzw. Wegga(la)

[@lhuras.]

"There is an Aligator outside my window." surely is something, you won't here (often) from someone in Germany 😂

[@HayleyAlexis]

😆😆 he just wanted to say hello 👋

[@uwelohrenz6131]

I was told that Portuguese people would hang pickles on their Christmas trees. 🤣

[@volrathsstronghold3989]

As a German, I heard from and lived the pickle tradition the first time 2 weeks ago with my brothers family. They said it comes from the US. 😁

[@martinkasper197]

Hot Dog bread roll for Rostbratwurst?🌭 Bäh... It like a burger bun for a LKW (Leberkäswecken)...😱🤣🤣 I ❤ Laugensemmeln..Btw. most American bread is cake (compared to German standards)..🤔

[@peterkoller3761]

maybe in Spreewald, they decorate their Christmas trees with pickles, but definitely nowhere else that I know of.

[@HayleyAlexis]

😆🤣 this comment is probably the best one under this video

[@katikeller1120]

Das ist die einzige Theorie die ich mir auch vorstellen kann. Außerdwm war im Osten auch die Glasbläserei sehr verbreitet. Dort wurde das vielleicht direkt übernommen...

[@jha6783]

I myself was never looking for a pickle in the Christmas tree. And it is very nice of you to talk about that hard german character whithout empathie. This is realy not the truth. There are alot of very empathic and nice persons in germany. You made your experience in the country. So it is pretty authentic what you are talking about. Thanks for educating your countrymen.

[@wendyw.2778]

They had something similar (crispy, fresh) like german Brötchen at safeway in California, they were called Torpedo.

[@HayleyAlexis]

That is nice to know. There are some places that have “German” bread here and it tastes amazing but it’s hard to find 🥹

[@JouMxyzptlk]

"belly hangin' out" -> the sad part is that you are not joking here, you just describe what you see...

[@knipserunterwegso.g.3451]

Die Gurke im Weihnachtsbaum ist wahrscheinlich ein regionaler Brauch gewesen. Ich tippe mal auf Erzgebirge oder Spessart.

[@jdlythgoe-hilliard8343]

I think someone needs to write Walt Disney World, Epcot Center to have them explain why the German Pavillion has/had a room with pickle ornaments on a tree. If they can cite their source, we might get closer to the answer about the mysterious pickle ornament!

[@blauchiliblau7591]

Another German here: never heared about the German pickle 😂😂😂

[@thomasbrutting8046]

We actually do have a pickle hidden in our tree but we were given it and told it was an American Christmas tradition :D We did not care but thought it was funny and the green pickle inside a green tree can hardly be seen anyway... :D

[@romanknetsch1035]

OK, pretty old German (63) here! When I was a kid, we always had that green pickle 🥒 in our christmas tree. But it's a long lost christmas tradition in only specific regions of Germany. My parents were born in the 1920s and they saved their very old christmas decorations throughout the times. There were a lot of old traditions that are forgotten and lost nowadays. I really feel sorry for that, cause it used to be part of our culture!

[@MaxRoth-mc6nb]

Where exactly did this custom exist? I can't think of any region that would have such a thing?!?!

[@mariokrings]

If you miss German bread rolls (Semmel) it's so easy to prepare them yourself. It's not much work either.

[@HayleyAlexis]

I might look up a recipe to try out :)

[@friebor]

I’ll buy an original German Christmas tree pickle immediately 😂😂😂

[@Gabriel667]

LoL I am German and I live in Germany and I have never heard of the Christmas Pickle 🤣

[@lucientruth]

...hihihi... bring a bavarian , a "kölsch" and a "sächsisch" -german speaking person in one room and they won't understand eachother... 🤣🤣🤣🤣 that would realy sound funny...🤩🤣🤣🥰 Greatings from Hannover Germany

[@lisastenzel5713]

😊I think it's great that you like that we are speaking about our feelings. Not everyone speaks the truth about their feelings or speak about deep emotions with everyone. But we are out there, shouting from the roof tops how we like or dislike stuff all. the. time! So, we are humans my dear US citizens. Not some kind of aliens. We are just like you, with another mentality, other traditions and a lot of shame and self hate about the WWs. It still drives our politics into the wrong directions. We always try to be the not the best, but the perfect example of good people. Instead of taking the emotion out of it, as politicians should 😅 It's a vicious circle.

[@hanneludwigkeit8666]

I'm german and i live in Hessen. My brother is married to a woman from Rheinland-Pfalz. She introduced our family to the tradition of German Christmas Pickle. So I think, it's a very local tradition. We love it. My mom adopted it. So everyone has a 'own' pickle in my parents Christmas tree 😅

[@jennywells416]

I'm from Mainz and never heard of the pickle until a few years ago from Americans and I don't know anyone in that area that has one or heard of one.

[@Ralf-CGN]

Have you ever heard of the German Christmas pickle? --> No Never!

[@HayleyAlexis]

Yeah....... It is crazy that we market and sell a "tradition" in the USA as German but the vast majority of Germans have no idea about this tradition 😂😂

[@hh-kv6fh]

@@HayleyAlexis they are now avaible in germaný, from glass

[@HayleyAlexis]

So the USA has started a tradition in Germany…. From lying about a tradition in Germany? 🤣😅🤔

[@arnodobler1096]

​@@hh-kv6fhfor US Tourists? 🤔🤷‍♂️

[@andreasengels7293]

Hio there is alsow an other interisting/ funny thing that is simular i heard of. the "German" chokolate cake... this cake is NOT from germany the name of the guy that inventet it was german (at least that is what i heard) @@HayleyAlexis

[@maxhamann8739]

wouldn’t be surprised if the pickle was something local that evolved into a German tradition by immigrants in the states

[@lazyperfectionist1]

There's a young lady named Trixi. Her channel name on YT is DontTrustTheRabbit. She's grown up in Germany, speaking German, but she's done a pretty decent job of learning English. She speaks it with a distinct accent, but there's never any trouble understanding what she's saying. In one video, she told us about how she was traveling in a part of Germany she had never had occasion to go to, before. She was at the bus stop and a man there said something to her in German and she was _baffled_ by it. It was German, but it was a dialect she could not make sense of.

[@Attirbful]

Many Americans have a good style, but the shocking styles people display at Walmart, we would not be caught in even opening the door when the Amazon driver arrives at our home…

[@floriang.8535]

I think our honesty is often mistaken as rudeness. But we in Germany think that truth isn´t rude but helps developing. We don´t like that superficial kindness. If we get friends in Germany it´s true friendship and as friends you can be true and honest to each other

[@stefanbohme541]

as it appears that tradition of a hiding a German Christmas pickle left Germany with the immigrant to US back more a hundred years ago! Great! Thx! I do not miss it at all.....

[@_.BlueCrow._]

haha, I'm german and we indeed have a christmas pickle ornament on our christmas tree. Like every year tho I forgot why it was there and was confused, googled where this tradition is from again, and wikipedia just said it's a tradition from the US 😵‍💫 Oh yeah and it also just hangs there, no extra gift for the one who finds it or anything. I think my younger brother just bought the pickle once.

[@wolloc]

50 years old an hearing for the frst time of the "German pickle" - not in Germany, not in Austria, not in Switzerland and not in South Tirol, just to summon all the biggest German language speaking parts of Europe!

[@lisastenzel5713]

9:18 Not only not participating...those things are not for sale here. They don't exist 😅 Someone had a really good laugh somewhere 😅

[@bendjohans3863]

yeah its not easy here as often the next village speaks a slightly different dialect as the one you are in and people from south bavaria can have a hard time understand the dialect in hamburg ;D

[@sabrinasarah4960]

Traditional in the tree are strawstars but No pickels 😂

[@IIIOOOUS]

That alligator you should have filmed.

[@HayleyAlexis]

One day I will :)

[@papaya8634]

I am german and I have never heard about a Christmas Pickle. In fact, I have rarely ever heard two words that sound so weird when put together lol. But I like the idea of a hidden item on the christmas tree and getting a reward if you find it!

[@GlenHunt]

Christmas pickle?! Um... Maybe that's just a SW FL thing. Then again I've lived here for 22 years now and haven't heard of it, so...dunno.

[@xocolacooks]

Ummmm, Girl! You can not tell us that there is an alligator splashing around outside your window without showing it! Lol

[@HayleyAlexis]

I will make a video with the alligators soon...I just need to stop being so dang sick!!!

[@pfalzgraf7527]

I really think that the "German Pickle" is something that you really have to explain to Germans, mostly! 😅 On the harsh German language: funny thing, really, and you kind of said it as a side remark: It was part of the time! There was a kind of oratory style in the 1920s and 30s, perhaps induced by the use of the then new and not yet brilliant microphone and speakers, where people tried to be loud and very clear so that every word can be understood. German, having the tendency to separate words more than other languages, may be prone to sound even more staccato than, for example, English. But if you listen to speeches by Churchill or Roosevelt, you can hear quite the harsh and staccato tendencies, as well. Thanks or mentioning it! PS: According to Wikipedia, the coconut is a "drupe" (einsamige Steinfrucht in German)

[@michaausleipzig]

My theory on the "christmas pickle" is that's it's probably a very regional thing that has also since died out in Germany. It is completely unknown in my family and our christmas traditions as well but these traditions can differ WIDELY between different regions of Germany. In one of them this may have been a thing. Maybe more german immigrants to the US came from that region than others. But it most certainly has died out here in Germany. Otherwise some Germans would still know about or even practice it.

[@TheWuschelMUC]

Our former American tenants returned to the U.S. after a few years. A long time later I visited them. They missed quite some things from their time in Nuremberg, especially the Nuremberg grilled sausages. (They were Jewish, shhh!)

[@olli1068]

This is my favourite history if the pickle: There was an American businessman, who came to Germany more than 140 years ago to find some "typical" German christmas tree decoration to sell in the US. Besides some really typical things, he found the pickle, which nobody head ever heard of before. So he brought it back to the states and made it "typical German". Other sories were made up later, to make it more interesting. 🥒 This mans name was Frank Winfield Woolworth.