Scenes from the 2007 New Year's Eve Pickle Drop   1/3/07 2007 Pickle Drop News 2006 Photos Pickle Drop Home     The New Year's Eve Pickle in all its glowing glory shortly after it descended into a perfectly preserved redwood pickle tank at the stroke of 7 o'clock midnight New Year's Eve.   Top     Those attending the 2007 Pickle Drop donated 1,180 pounds of canned food and other items to benefit the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina. Donors received a chance to win door prizes from the Mt. Olive Pickle Company gift shop. The grand prize was a pickle similar to the one that is dropped.   Top     The Harmony Boys, Pickle Drop favorites, get the festivities started with live music. Their performance ends with "The Pickle Polka" just a few minutes before the pickle is dropped. Other highlights of the evening include free refreshments - hot chocolate, cookies, hot apple cider, and, of course, Mt. Olive Kosher Dills.   Top   Mr. Crisp is popular with the cameras, as many attending the Pickle Drop snap photos with him. A record 2,000 people attended this year's event. Pickles are awarded to the family that traveled the farthest to attend. This year, the winners hailed from Burbank, CA. Other contenders were from Missouri and New Mexico.                           Top       Mount Olive College's Dr. Alan Armstrong plays "Auld Lang Syne" after the pickle makes its plunge into 2008.   Top