#4: Christmas Pickles

Christmas Pickles. Chreembus Picklés. Crambus Paccluus? If you’ve never heard of this fermented dilly pickle holiday tradition, you’re about to. In rhyme. (Mostly.) That is at least, if Richard can find the pickle hidden in the tree… Plus: the usual singing, dancing, and ANNNNYWAYYYYS.

And now, back to the show.

But first, join us in singing the Christmas Pickle anthem, “Joyful, Joyful, We Ferment Thee”:

This show is good for kids, too!

Reporting on Christmas Pickles can get grizzly:

But wait, there’s another verse:

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FEATURED VOICES (in order of appearance):
Matt Frassica, Sally Parks, Zoenda McIntosh, Bennett Barbakow (the pickle ornament-giving friends); Elise Craig, Helen Hollyman (pickle ornament-hiding friends); Elizabeth Parks Kibbey (chorisister); Sandor Katz (fermentation maestro); Russell Quinn; Kelsey Curnutt, Richard “Dick” Schinkel (Christmas Pickle Capital of the World).

PRODUCTION CREDITS:
Richard’s Famous Food Podcast is made by Richard Parks III.
Fancy music by Van Dyke Parks.
Sloppy music by Richard.
Theme song by Dr. Bobby Halvorson.
Mustachioed pickle logo by James Braithwaite.

THIS EPISODE IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY:
Vine-Gary Dick’s Spicy Pickled Carols (a special fermented holiday compilation album from Richard’s Famous), featuring “Little Town of Gerkingham,” “Silver Dills,” “Rudolf the Red-Nosed Pickle,” “Away in a Crock Pot,” “Silent Pickle,” and so many more.