The pickled tomatoes intrigue me. I remember eating salt pickled tomatoes on a visit to the Soviet Union in the 1980s. I was there in the summer. It seemed there were tomato plants growing in every window and balcony of the high rise tenements. It was explained to me that folks grew tomatoes and salt pickled them to avoid scurvy in the winter. I tried them and liked them. I got the recipe and have been making them ever since. Yummy.

That they are also useful as an anti-aircraft weapon had never occurred to me. Live and learn.