Well, to be perfectly truthful, I did taste gooseneck barnacles some 30 years ago but let’s face it, I don’t have any memory of what they tasted like. So this summer, while visiting Portugal, I read about a town that specialized in the things (percebes in Portuguese). And yes they are barnacles, but really long ones. I think they were cooked, but I wouldn’t want swear to it. At any rate, what you do is snap the top off and a mussel-like thing emerges. The taste is briny and strong, like a powerful whiff of a fishing harbor, a little like a mussel or a an oyster. Delicious, if you like sea critters, which I do!