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The 20th annual New Year’s Eve Pickle Drop will see a significant change this December – but only for one year. Because of a major construction project going on at the Corner of Cucumber & Vine – the location of the company’s Main Plant – the Pickle Drop will be held at the University of…

Mark your calendars: Mt. Olive Pickle Company, Inc.’s annual New Year’s Eve Pickle Drop will be held on Sunday, December 31, 2017 at the Corner of Cucumber & Vine in Mount Olive. At the stroke of 7 p.m. midnight – that’s 7 o’clock EST, which also happens to be midnight Greenwich Mean Time. (That way,…

One of the traditions of the Mt. Olive New Year’s Eve Pickle Drop is the canned food drive for Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina. And this year, in the aftermath of Hurricane Matthew, the food drive is even more important. See the list of most needed items. “Typically after the holidays local…

Mt. Olive Pickle Company and its fans together raised over $10,000 to help feed hungry neighbors. Mt. Olive held a virtual food drive in conjunction with its 2020 New Year’s Eve Pickle Drop to benefit the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina. The company set a goal of $5,000 and pledged a $5,000…

The 1920s: Where it All Began It all started in the 1920s. An enterprising Lebanese immigrant, Shikrey Baddour from nearby Goldsboro, decided to start his own business by taking advantage of bumper crops of local cucumbers. The goal was to sell brined cucumbers to nearby pickling firms for a tidy profit. He enlisted the aid…