I think I first learned about the pickle thing when I went to Christmas lights thing. Church decorated their grounds with lights and had stands with food and drinks and little activities and such. It was really cute and fun. But I got this tiny card with the story of the Christmas Pickle and it was all basically what Admiral said. Whoever found the pickle first got to open a special present or the first one maybe. I kept it taped to my computer monitor for yeeears until I realized I didn't use the monitor anymore, and decided to recycle it. I took the story off, but I don't remember what I did with it.

I think it's still kind of a mystery where the story and stuff originated from, but here's the Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_pickle