Kicker: Beyond the ball drop

MARY REICHARD, HOST: New Year’s Eve means dropping things in order to celebrate. There’s the big ball drop in New York City, but Myrna, do you know what the folks in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania drop?

MYRNA BROWN, HOST: Wise men?

REICHARD: Good guess, but no. Bethlehem’s where marshmallow Peeps are made, so they drop a 9400 pound yellow Peep!

BROWN: I want in on that afterparty!

Right? Then over in the City of Oaks… Raleigh, North Carolina drops a giant acorn. An hour down the road, Mount Olive lets loose a big pickle on a string….of course, home of Mt. Olive Pickles.

Chattanooga, Tennessee? Hometown of that famous southern treat? You guessed it…they drop a 12 foot electrified Moon Pie.

And Allentown, PA, home of the LeHigh Valley Phantoms hockey team drops a one-thousand pound hockey puck!

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