One Cucumber Boulevard
Mark your calendars: Mt. Olive Pickle Company, Inc. will hold its annual New Year’s Eve Pickle Drop Monday, December 31, 2018 at the Corner of Cucumber & Vine in Mount Olive.
The New Year’s Eve Pickle descends down the flagpole 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, we are official, we shout Happy New Year! – and we don’t have to stay up until midnight.)
In the last several years thousands have turned out to watch the lighted, three-foot pickle drop down the company’s 45-foot flagpole and into a perfectly preserved redwood pickle tank at precisely 7 o’clock.
Video screens mark the countdown of the year’s final hour, from 6-7 p.m. The Harmony Boys will perform from 5:30-6:15, and then deejay L.J. Manley will lead the crowd in line dancing. Free refreshments – hot chocolate, cookies and pickles, are also served.
Another part of the Pickle Drop tradition is the canned food drive for the Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina. Those bringing canned food or who make financial contributions receive a chance to win door prizes at the evening’s end. The grand prize is a pool pickle similar to the one that is dropped.
EVENT DETAILS
No pets, please. We are a food manufacturing facility and do not permit pets on our plant site.
The company’s gift shop will be open that day from 3-7 p.m.
For driving directions to Mt. Olive Pickle, go to www.picklemap.com.
Handicapped parking is available at the Main Gate. Please tell the person directing traffic that you need it, and he or she will direct you.
General parking is available on our plant site. Watch for directions. Immediately after the event, all gates are opened for a reasonably quick exit.
why?
What else are we going to drop in Mount Olive on New Year’s Eve?