My Feb. 8, 2000 Panic Attack at Cub Foods

and what it can teach you about American food culture

The image generated by Dall-e, an Open AI image-generating service, uses the prompt “young man having a panic attack in the cereal aisle of a brightly lit grocery store, digital art, hyper-realistic.”

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