Tone is difficult to convey on the internet without sounding incredibly unnatural, I took it to mean "how did they do that" instead of what I assume you read as "this is fake".
Respectable. Anxious commander attempting to cut down the time that a critical mission will take, and accepting the response that it isn't possible with a minimum of further distraction.
Proper labelling would seem to be a requirement anyways if they aggravate shellfish allergies, I think the concern is more "if this starts getting used in more foods my choices for food will shrink and I may no longer be able to eat the foods I like now".
I have a use case in Powershell: my company has a number of scripts that are minimally but importantly customized per-location, and I have an otherwise unused "SiteId" variable where I keep the location name for that specific script for a quick sanity check when I'm looking them over for any reason. Not necessary, but useful to me. Probably wouldn't do the same thing in a compiled program, but I can at least see where someone might want something similar.
Well, Transformation fetishes are a real thing. Entirely possible.