그는 따개비는 기본적으로 돌 껍질에 싸여 있는 고정식 새우로 맛있었지만, 전형적인 대서양 따개비를 먹는 것은 바다의 셀러리에 비유하기에는 너무 어려웠고, 먹어서 얻는 것보다 더 많은 칼로리를 소모하여 먹을 수 있게 만들었습니다.

He noted that barnacles were tasty, being basically stationary shrimp encased in a stony shell, but eating the typical Atlantic barnacles was too difficult to be practical likening barnacles to the celery of the sea, one would burn more calories rendering them edible than one would obtain by eating.