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Pickle Drop Virtual Food Drive nets $10,358 for Food Bank
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…
Read MorePregnancy & Pickles
Why do pregnant women crave pickles? Increased blood volume during pregnancy raises a pregnant women’s need for sodium, making salty foods, like pickles, a very common craving! Like many pregnant women, Amanda Haigler had been having some serious pickle cravings. Amanda is expecting twins, and she wanted to find a creative way to document this chapter…
Read MoreThe 99-Year History of Mt. Olive Pickle Company
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…
Read MoreWe are featured on TWC’s Made in the Carolinas!
A recent Time Warner Cable News’ Made in the Carolinas segment explored a bit about Mt. Olive’s history and its current-day operations. Watch it now! Original air date: September 8, 2015.
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