The barnacle geese This belief stemmed from the observation that these geese were never seen in summer, when they were supposedly developing underwater (they were actually breeding in remote Arctic regions). The barnacles and the geese shared similar black and white colours, plus a certain type of barnacle looked – with a bit of imagination – like a tiny black and white goose. The geese and the barnacles appeared in different seasons. Though the issue was controversial, it was an important part of medieval cuisine
Home / Questions / In England, it was believed that which birds grew from organisms exposed to salt water and this belief enabled Catholics to classify them as ‘fish’ and hence qualified them to be eaten during Lent?