This entry originates as a marginal gloss derived from alpha 1828, which also generated alpha 2544. The current entry in turn seems to have generated sigma 1052. The headword can refer to meats, fish and other foods preserved by salting, smoking, drying or pickling (see Web address 1 for the entry in LSJ), and is translated variously in the translations of these entries.
[1] While the headword -- presumably extracted from somewhere -- is the plural of the neuter noun τάριχον , the form ταρίχη given here is the plural of the more common synonym τάριχος (also neuter: tau 124). ταρίχη seems to have been misunderstood at some point as the singular form of a feminine noun attested only here in the cited proverb (in the dative case) -- see further, next note -- and in sigma 1052.
[2] Several of the paroemiographers have this proverb, inc. Zenobius 1.84. In alpha 1828 and alpha 2544 the word for "pickle" is the more regular ταρίχῳ as opposed to the idiosyncratic ταρίχῃ found here and in sigma 1052 (see previous note).