What's in my Pickle Tray?

[caveman]

So, the other night, my dear wife and I were concluding a busy evening of costume-item shopping, and getting hungry when we spotted a restaurant new to our fair city, Manny Hattan's, which claims to be a New York style deli. After being seated and ordering our drinks, we were brought a small metal bowl of pickles. Now, I like pickles if they're cold and hard (otherwise, ewww...), but my wife doesn't like them at all, so I had them all to myself. The tasty ex-cukes were not alone in the complimentary appetizer (are free pickles to delis what chips & salsa are to Tex-Mex?) however. There were also in that bowl two halves of a fruit of some sort (fruit in the botanical sense, a ripened ovary with seeds in it) that resembled a small roma tomato in shape, but was a very pale green color. It seems to have been pickled as well. On the whole, not very appetizing looking, so I left it alone. What was it, and did I miss out by not giving it a try?

[Encinitas]

I suspect that it was a pickled green tomato. Very Tasty! Go back and have one.

[False_God]

Pickled green tomatoes, and they're very nice.

They usually taste like pickles, but it's a texture thing--softer than a cucumber on the inside, but with that resistance that a tomato has.
Ba Tampte makes a good commercial version.