Wow! Easily a 10. Simultaneously deeply odd, deeply compelling, at times a bit revolting and then around the 80% dive into the read the writer takes the narrative and twists it towards deeper socio-politico-current event consciousness.

This paragraph is Gold:

To be disgusted is natural, but to understand why we are disgusted requires us to reconfigure the way we see the world. “Human beings are accustomed to protecting themselves and their own,” Arceneaux said. “But a pandemic is the kind of unprecedented event that requires people to reframe the threat.” The purpose of wearing a mask is not to protect yourself but to protect others around you. “The only way to save yourself from a contagion is to save the strangers who may disgust you,” Arceneaux said.

I also dig this one:

Shortly before my virtual tour of the Disgusting Food Museum, I had received a temperature-controlled package in the mail. It contained goat-stomach cheese, fermented shark, surströmming, and several other items from the museum’s taste test. I arranged the food in small saucers around my laptop and launched Zoom, where Andreas Ahrens was waiting for me. Before I dug in, he suggested I check that the items had made it through their transatlantic journey O.K. “Maybe smell them just to make sure they haven’t gone bad,” he said. But, wait, I said, weren’t most of them supposed to smell bad? He laughed. “Good luck, then.”