Just look for dried tvp and it should be much cheaper and functionally similar across brands. Plus you can determine the flavoring yourself. Adding a little no beef better than bouillon when you marinate/cook it can go a long way towards increasing the beefiness.

the kind of guy who might be at a real risk to bight trump if stuck close to him for too long

Hmmm. Bite or fight? Both is good.

There is a shade of meaning between “I don’t believe” and “I don’t know how a person/I could determine that they/I affirmatively believe.”

I personally would interpret the former as non religious and the latter as agnostic, but it probably differs from person to person. Especially because non religious is often used to describe people who do not practice a religion, but may well still believe in it (though that would be non practicing for me).

I hate definite articles, I’m an a-the-ist

That would be a huge hassle for Ireland.

I could actually see a cool concept of this where the human fishers are beings able to survive in the vacuum of space, who treat inhabited planets like lakes and just throw us into a gravity trap on their spacecraft without an atmosphere to kill us, the way we do with fish.

Watermelon wine sounds like something I’d drink a lot of once.