According to Chef Christopher Koetke, Corporate Executive Chef at Ajinomoto, "Monosodium glutamate (MSG) is the purest form of umami. [...] MSG has been used as a seasoning for more than a hundred ...

In that case, the falling meteorite was like a pinch of umami seasoning going into the soup pot. My amateur's imagination keeps expanding, but I should stop before all this starts verging on the ...