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Originally posted by Route 11

I have two potato ornaments and a little Airstream trailer. Last year I made a popcorn string but Kitty-Kitty Meow-Meow yanked the whole thing out. BTW I did not name that cat.

Sure you didn’t. Reminded me of an unwritten rule in my household of two dogs and a cat which is my wife and I firmly agreeing to NEVER allow our three kids to EVER name any of our pets thereby preventing either of us from standing at the front door yelling, "Foo-foo!! Foo-foo!! Come here, boy!!"

Yikes.

Has anyone seen a Kit-Kat Clock ornament anywhere? Gotta have one of those for our cat lovin’ house next year.

I have two potato ornaments and a little Airstream trailer. Last year I made a popcorn string but Kitty-Kitty Meow-Meow yanked the whole thing out. BTW I did not name that cat.

On our tree hangs ornaments in the shape of a key lime pie, a fortune cookie, a bottle of Tuborg, a ristra of chili peppers, a salmon, and a crab suspended inside a crab trap.

Out trying to get into the Christms Spirit today. I went into a local Garden center & came up with two more ornaments. A blown glass Chocolat Bon-bon in a foil cup and a gumdrop santa, made out of plastic red gumdrops with twizzler legs & arms! They had the garlic head, many different fruits, wine bottles & beer stein & even a martini glass w/olive

lamertz, we used to make the popcorn and cranberry tree decorations as a grade school Christmas project for our tree at school and then for each kid to take home. Not sure how many of those decorations ever successfully completed the journey from the school house to the home. Also when I was a kid we had nothing but pullybones; I never heard the term wishbone till I was grown and away from home. We all raised, killed, cleaned, and cut up our chickens back then. What used to really provoke me as a big strapling teenager was fact I just could not get that chicken’s neck run off, no matter how long and how hard I tried, but there would be my little 98 lb. grandmother giving that chicken’s neck a quarter turn with her left hand and the job was done! Also, as a little kid I liked to go to my grandmother’s to eat fried chicken because her chickens had pullybones and ours didn’t (and as a kid I couldn’t understand that she and my mother cut up their chickens differently; I thought each was raising different kinds of chickens and I liked grandmother’s the best). All good memories!

I thought you were talking edible ornaments too. I really like to string popcorn and cranberries for the tree. The birds love this when we take the tree out after the holidays. We used to do the gingerbread men and women–they were fun and you can get real creative.
Liketoeat–I haven’t heard anyone call the wishbone a pullybone for ages!Thanks for that swell memory. All the cooks in my family cut their own birds (usually rung their necks,too) and cut the breast bone this way.

we have two pickles, grapes, a lobster and gingerbread men

Jennie,

I know the reopened after the fire, haven’t been down this year, so I don’t know if it is still there.

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Originally posted by ocdreamrI don’t want to swear to it but I think I got it at the Christmas store in Annapolis.

Are they still in business? The Annapolis one? That’s where that devastating fire was in the Historic District. [V]

We have a banana, a pickle, and a strawberry. At least that’s all I can remember right now. A couple weeks before Christmas, I could probably be more precise, but I ain’t dragging all that stuff out and unpacking it just to count food ornaments. lol

When I first read this topic, I thought you meant edible ornaments. My mom used to make cookie-cutter cookies with holes in the top, frosted beautifully, with edible glitter on them, and hang them on the tree. One year my crazy aunt came and ate all of them off the tree in an hour. lol

We have tons of ornamentns–wife and i both collect them so now we have a rule that we are only allowed one nre ornamenmt per year–we already have enough to about 4 trees!Have pickle–cookies ,fruit of all kinds nuts–peanut-acorn-walnut,candies of several varieties–arg….. the list is long

Our two food ornaments are the pickle and a metal wishbone or pullybone ornament.

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Originally posted by chezkatie

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Originally posted by EliseT

I have had that pickle ornament for years, and never knew there was any mythology surrounding it. This website is so educational!

HOLY CROW………yOU ARE NOW A CHILI DOUBLE CHEESEBURGER!!! I am going to have to hurry to catch up with you.

Oh my God, I knew I talked alot, but wow!

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Originally posted by meowzart

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Originally posted by ocdreamr
I don’t want to swear to it but I think I got it at the Christmas store in Annapolis. They’re the same people that have the shop in OC.

I do believe that store is called Christmas Spirit, also in Rehoboth Beach, DE. I got my ice cream cone ornament there, too!

Yeah, I can’t go in there without coming out with at least one ornament.