History Main / WackyCravings

* Vegetarian [[MythBusters Kari Byron]] had a craving for [[http://www.pregnancy360.com/kari-byron beef stew]] (her mom's recipe) while she was pregnant. Her husband got stuck with the job of preparing it.

* In ''AMoodyChristmas'', the pregnant woman (who never passes up an opportunity to mention her pregnancy) says that she sometimes craves salt-and-vinegar chips and ice cream.

* In ''MoscowDoesNotBelieveInTears'', Katya develops a sudden craving for pickles. Her two friends immediately figure out that she's pregnant.

* Inverted in ''[[Webcomic/Shortpacked!]]'' where the normally ExtremeOmnivore Robin finds herself craving a salad.

* Inverted in ''Webcomic/Shortpacked!'' where the normally ExtremeOmnivore Robin finds herself craving a salad.

Compare the ExtremeOmnivore, someone who ''always'' eats this way (e.g. the aforementioned full-blown pica.)

** Geophagy (eating of dirt and clay) still happens with pregnant women in some poorer countries, and parts of the U.S. South).

* Non-pregnancy-related example: [[Series/DoctorWho the Eleventh Doctor]] spends a good ten minutes after his regeneration trying to figure out exactly what it is he's craving, working his way through most of the contents of Amelia's kitchen before eventually settling on fish fingers and custard.

* In the Babylonian Talmud, Chapter 8 of Tractate Yoma mentions pregnancy cravings for non-kosher food. The passage discusses a pregnant woman who craves pork on Yom Kippur! (Yep, it's allowed! Still, check with your rabbi first.)

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'', during the episode ''Elogium'' where Kes goes through false puberty and her body readies for conception. She eats beetles, nitrogenated planting soil, mashed potatoes with butter (with soil), assorted fruits, and even the flowers Neelix brings her to apologize for his jealousy over Tom...all in the space of a few minutes.

* Pepper of IronMan gained the crazy cravings of pickles despite the fact that she hated pickles and it turns out that [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6514352/1/Pickles she was pregnant ]]. In the sequel, she gained the oddest craving of [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6530311/1/Frozen-Coke frozen coke]].

** In ''{{V}}'', Robin, pregnant with a hybrid, craves red meat to the point that she wakes in the night and yanks it uncooked from the refrigerator to eat.
*** Or, in the 2009 remake, [[spoiler: Valerie (also pregnant with a hybrid),]] almost eats a mouse caught in a trap.

* More of a HilariousInHindsight moment of ''{{The X-Files}}''; Scully was portrayed as a health nut for seven seasons, very rarely indulging in junk food. She even went as far as stirring bee pollen into yogurt (even though Mulder tells her she's a scientist and should know better..) While pregnant in season eight, we see her ordering junk food--specifically pizza--which is mentioned later that same episode to have been a regular habit of hers.

* In the ''{{Bones}}'' seventh season premiere, a pregnant Brennan is seen swiping Booth's apple pie while they're having lunch at the Founding Fathers. This is particularly notable since Brennan in the past has stated that she disliked pie due to her distaste for cooked fruit, while Sweets had suggested that Booth's attempts to get Brennan to eat a slice of pie were a form of subtle seduction.

* Vala requests pancakes and brownie fudge ice cream during her pregnancy on ''[[Series/{{Stargate SG-1}} Stargate SG-1]]''. Incidentally, this was before she got around to telling anyone in the SGC, though a sharp-eyed viewer would have noticed.

* In ''LadyAndTheTramp'', Darling sends her husband out into a January snowstorm to get watermelon... and Chop Suey. What makes this even more bizarre is that both melons and Chinese food are considered ''warm-weather'' fare.

* Subverted in both the play and film of ''TheOddCouple'':

* IAt one point in the 2004 [=ITV=] adaptation of ''[[MissMarple The Murder at the Vicarage]]'', Griselda Clement (the vicar's wife) asks for apricot chutney to season her meal, from which Miss Marple deduces that Griselda is pregnant.

A [[PregnancyTropes Pregnancy Trope]]. During any pregnancy, at some point the mother will experience cravings -- however, they will never be cravings for any standard foodstuff (such as pickles, ice cream, etc), but will instead be cravings for the most ''[[HilarityEnsues hilariously]]'' inappropriate and mismatched foods (chocolate covered kippers, boiled eggs and ice-cream, peanut butter-dipped pickles, etc). Bonus points are awarded if the woman craves something that is either (a) extremely difficult if not ''[[BeyondTheImpossible physically impossible]]'' to actually find; (b) isn't actually ''food'' or (c) both.

* [[http://notalwaysright.com/hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-pregnant-woman-scorned/2453 This]] NotAlwaysRight entry.

* When Lucy is [[strike: pregnant with]] expecting Little Ricky on ''ILoveLucy'', she sends Ricky out in the middle of the night to find a store that makes a papaya milkshake--as well as sardines to mix in and a pickle to dip in it.

* During the run on ''ILoveLucy'' when Lucy was pregna...sorry, enceinte, she craved chocolate ice cream and...sardines.

* In Creator/StephenKing's ''[[TheDarkTower Wolves Of The Calla]]'', the character Susannah is pregnant [[spoiler: with the child of the BigBad, Roland, and a ''second'' mother]], and craves things like living frogs.

* In "Literature/{{Rapunzel}}" the girl is held captive by a WickedWitch who caught her father stealing rampion for his pregnant wife and demanded her in return for her father's life. As are [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/rapunzel/stories/petros.html Petrosinella]] and [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/rapunzel/stories/fairang.html The Fair Angiola]], whose mothers had robbed the witch of her herbs and had to pay the same price. Herbs may not seem wacky -- unless you want to eat them plain, and ''have'' to have the ones owned by a dangerous sorcersss.

** in 'Demon Seed'', the mother of the titular child, conceived through [[AppliedPhlebotinum similar methods]], also craves red meat to the point of eating it raw.

** When Darla was pregnant she started to crave innocent blood. Well she was already a vampire.