Uhmmmmm....In a way synthetic foods are.....well, they're made in a factory out in the upper levels and distributed to the populace. It's meat remade from the items we get from the Deep, which is place Divers go to get resources and such.

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Though I guess that doesn't really answer things does it? Sorry about that. There's just a lot to go into to explain it.

[ He pauses and thinks. ]

I guess the simplest way to put it is that it's "fake" meat? But that sounds horrid for something I eat ninety eight percent of the time, dunnit?