This article from today’s Washington Post caught my eye.
I live in Pennsylvania, Land of the New Year’s Eve Drop. My own town intends to drop a model of an Indy car, because we’re the car show capital of the world.
So what, if anything, does your town drop (or raise), and do you plan to watch it?
Robin
Walking around Dublin of a crisp New Year’s morn it becomes apparent that alot of presumably inebriated individuals drop dookies on the pavement.
I can imagine a gigantic turd descending down a pole. Honest, I can.
Robin
In Atlanta we drop the peach:
I do not plan on going, so in honor of my new home state we will be doing some red headed sluts. It’s a delicous shot involving jagermeister, peach schnaps, and a splash of cranberry juice.
A bunch of beer bottle caps.
Seriously, central PA somehow has become New Year’s Drop Central…
A strawberry in Harrisburg
A Hershey’s Kiss in Hershey
An anchor in Shippensburg
A wrench in Mechanicsburg
A pickle in Dillsburg
A white rose in York
A red rose in Lancaster
A sled in Duncannon
A huckleberry in New Bloomfield
A goat (not real) in Falmouth
A lollipop in Hummelstown
A M&M in Elizabethtown
An orb in Manheim
A lion (also not real) in Red Lion
A wooden cow in Blain
A canal boat in Liverpool
Bologna in Lebanon
A peep (the marshmallow kind) in Bethlehem
I’m surprised Hanover doesn’t drop a bag of Utz potato chips.
Robin
Officially - I don’t think so.
Unofficially - there’s lots of broken glass dropped around my street by last night’s revellers.
Yes this year is the first year we will have a ball drop in Sacramento
I live in New York City. I have a vague recollection that they drop something around here, but I haven’t heard much about it.
In Raleigh they drop a giant acorn. Raleigh’s nickname is “The City of Oaks” because of all the oak trees.
So how’s the new year so far? Still about 2.5 hours to go here.
We drop it like it’s hot.
Hot. It’s about 34 at the moment.
From the New Year broadcast on one of the networks tonight, Key West drops a drag queen.
I was thinking the same thing.
Doesn’t Cincinnati drop live turkeys?
Tempe, AZ drops a giant tortilla chip into salsa/dip at midnight. Of course, it was all part of the Tostitos Fiesta Bowl Block Party. Nice advertising, eh?
You all missed a major Pennsylvania institution:
My birth city of Pottsville, Pennsylvania, also drops a giant bottle of Yuengling beer, or so I’ve read recently. It’s the home of America’s Oldest Brewery.
Not sure if it’s full, and what the townsfolk do if it breaks. If so, the town would smell like any college town’s Fraternity Row on a Sunday morning for a long, long time. 
Phoenix doesn’t drop anything on purpose, but usually lots of bullets rain down from the skies…