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Patient, on any drive longer than 22 minutes, declares a gas station stop 'for snacks' and emerges with $34 of items they did not know they wanted. Has included: a beef stick, a bag of sour gummy worms, a Red Bull, and a pine-tree air freshener. Nutrition has been abandoned for the duration.
Chronic. Each stop more expensive than the last.
None. The trip 'deserves' snacks.
Patients with Chronic Road-Trip Snack Justification typically present with some or all of the following:
Chronic Road-Trip Snack Justification is a chronic behavioral condition cataloged by the Institute. It is not recognized by the DSM-5, the ICD-11, or any existing diagnostic framework — and will not be, because it is not a real condition. It is, however, observed in the population with alarming frequency.
In the Institute's formal nomenclature, this condition is catalogued under the Latin binomial Defensio cibi viariae — a name not recognized by any medical authority but observed repeatedly in the catalog.
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