C. spinosa, simply known as caper, yields fruit and more importantly flower buds, which are widely used pickled as a vegetable condiment.
The leaves are also edible cooked, and can be used as a preserved pickles.
Aside from being eaten fresh, the fruit can be made into jam, and is also popular pickled or used in desserts.
The festival is also an opportunity for agro-industries and food industries processing mangoes into jams, pickles, fruit juice and canned fruit to display their products.
# Pickling the beans in salt and vinegar and water brine, and keeping them refrigerated if proper canning hygiene is not followed.
Repopulated by Bavarian settlers after the Ottoman rule, Vecsés has built up centuries of tradition producing sauerkraut so the city's name is associated with it.
He was educated at Choate, graduated from Yale University, where he was a member of the Skull and Bones secret society, and also graduated from Oxford University, but spent his summers working for the Heinz Company in the pickling and salting stations, as bookkeeper and as handyman.
It is served with side dishes including green chilis, raw onion, pickles and mango spiced with red chili pepper and sometimes with Karuvattu Kozhambu meaning Dry Fish Gravy.
The pickling plant was located on the corner of Roxford and San Fernando Road.