Balls are historically controversial. Not everyone is a fan, and not everyone necessarily wants to see one sliding down a pole on New Year's Eve. Of course we are talking about balls like the famous one in Times Square that mark the turning of a new year. Why, what did you think we were talking about?
Anyhoozle, we were hoping that someone else had already compiled a list of weird and wacky shapes that get dropped at midnight on New Year's Eve, and luckily, TripAdvisor did, because we are lazy post-Christmas sluggards, fat with sugarplums and pie.
As you'll see on the following list, among the alternate shapes that are improvements on balls: pickles, sausages, and bologna.
1. Key West, Florida - Conch, drag queen and pirate
2. Bethlehem, Pennsylvania - marshmallow "peep"3. Port Clinton, Ohio- fish
4. Mount Olive, North Carolina- pickles
5. Elmore, Ohio - sausages
6. Lebanon, Pennsylvania- bologna
7. New Orleans, Louisiana - gumbo pot
8. Easton, Maryland- crab
9. Plymouth, Wisconsin - cheese
10. Raleigh, North Carolina- acorn
Those are great and all, especially the Peep, but why? Read the explanations in the article.
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