Originally posted by TheMadHatter
mmmmm
Those are actually good to eat. You boil them and there's some edible meat in the neck. If your in an area where the water is clean (away from towns
and cities) they are pretty tasty.
gooseneck barnacles
TMH۞
[edit on 28-8-2009 by TheMadHatter]
I think you're thinking of Pollicipes pollicipes (or Pollicipes polymera if you're in the States...), you wouldn't get much meat out of these!
Probably Lepas anetifera. The two are very different (to someone who knows an unhealthy amount about barnacles..........:lol  . Lepas are much more
gelatenous.
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