History Main / WackyCravings

* Wives in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' games will often have these as early indicators of their pregnancy. In ''HarvestMoon64'', if the player marries Ann, she'll remark some time after the wedding that the hay on the farm looks delicious. Ann concludes that [[EntertaininglyWrong she's turning into a horse]].

* [[http://notalwaysright.com/hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-pregnant-woman-scorned/2453 This]] Website/NotAlwaysRight entry.
* Played with in [[http://notalwaysworking.com/showered-with-irresponsibility/36555 this]] Website/NotAlwaysWorking story. The customer's pregnant daughter ''doesn't'' have a craving for mayonnaise, she's making a large batch of [[http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/classic-deviled-eggs-recipe.html deviled eggs.]]

* One ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' strip has a termite queen ordering her workers to bring pickles and ice cream.

** When pregnant with Flurry Heart Cadance likes eating peanut butter ice cream with tomatoes.
* The first sign that Anna is pregnant in ''Fanfic/TheAlphabetStory'' is that she suddenly hates chocolate but craves vegetables. It's weird because Anna ''[[TrademarkFavoriteFood loves]]'' chocolate and hates vegetables.

* Wives in ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' games will often have these as early indicators of their pregnancy.

* The first sign that Anna is pregnant in ''Fanfic/TheAlphabetBook'' is that she suddenly hates chocolate but craves vegetables. It's weird because Anna ''[[TrademarkFavoriteFood loves]]'' chocolate and hates vegetables.

* 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. Similarly, [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/rapunzel/stories/petros.html Petrosinella]] and [[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/rapunzel/stories/fairang.html The Fair Angiola]] both had mothers who 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 sorceress.

* DownplayedTrope in ''Series/MurdochMysteries: At the start of the episode "Biffers and Blockers", Murdoch is unpacking a picnic for himself and Julia. He's surprised at how much food she's packed, and is holding a large jar of pickles as he asks "Are we expecting someone?" At which Julia tells him yes, they are.

* The Jack in the Box fast food chain was advertising its "brunchfast" menu (think chicken and egg sandwiches, burgers on croissant "buns," and other hybrids of their breakfast and lunch menu items). It started with Jack pitching the idea to his staff. Someone asked where he got the idea. Queue AnswerCut to fifteen minutes ago where his ''very'' pregnant wife admits "they're" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhlCU1Sf_Kk craving fried chicken, eggs, and bacon]] at 8pm on a Tuesday (not exactly brunch hours).

* Before Mrs. Jewls announces her pregnancy to her students in ''[[Literature/WaysideSchool Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger]]'', one of them notices her eating Oreo cookies filled with bologna instead of cream.

* In Latin America, this trope is often coupled with the old wives' tale that if you don't satisfy the craving, the kid will be born with a physical symbol of that unsatisfied desire, giving this trope a bigger sense of urgency. In one old SketchShow, a man tried to discredit that old tale, saying that while his mother was expecting him she craved watching Main/{{Tarzan}} movies (in an age before home video, when those movies were not available anyway), but he was born and grew up healthy and normal... [[HypocriticalHumor and then he makes the archetypical Tarzan yell]].

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'', Doug ends up pet-sitting Roger's cat Stinky. When Doug gives into the cat's demands for pizza and ice cream, he thinks he's done something terrible when the cat starts acting strangely afterward, but in the end, to everyone's surprise (including Roger's!), it turns out that Stinky was a ''girl'' all along, and ''pregnant.''

A case of TruthInTelevision -- some women actually ''do'' crave inedible things during pregnancy - but it tends to be exaggerated in fiction. In many cases, a woman doesn't even have to be pregnant. Some are prone to wild cravings during "that time of the month," to the confusion of any men present. This is probably a milder form of a condition known as "''pica''"; those afflicted with full-blown pica will crave all sorts of bizarre stuff 24/7, regardless of gender.

The trope often involves the father being roped into visiting late-night markets at 3 AM in search of that ''particular'' brand of pickled radishes and pistachio-flavored ice cream. Usually, this state of affairs will result in the father being stretched to breaking point to find the necessary goods... only to find, when he returns home, that the mother no longer craves it (usually without so much as a "thank you for traveling across five states and climbing a mountain to get it").

** The same thing happens in ''TwoPintsOfLagerAndAPacketOfCrisps'', when Louise is pregnant. She takes out a large lump of coal and bites into it as one would an apple.

* "Oni Candy", a pregnancy fetishist fanfic of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' uses the "gluttonous wacky cravings" variation for Ran; having finally scored the hand of her beloved Rei, she learns the hard way the difficulties of having the child of such a notorious BigEater, with a baby that physically demands she incessantly consume food. By the end of the story, she's literally eaten herself into a coma, and her belly is physically vibrating as her unborn daughter throws a tantrum, kicking non-stop in an attempt to goad her mother into waking up and resuming gorging herself.

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* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6686569/1/Meeting-Bill Meeting Bill]]'' Hermione makes herself a concoction of peanut-butter curry, asparagus, rice and chicken.

* Played with in [[http://notalwaysworking.com/showered-with-irresponsibility/36555 this]] Website/NotAlwaysWorking story. The customer's pregnant daughter ''doesn't'' have a craving for mayonnaise, she's making a large batch of [[http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/classic-deviled-eggs-recipe.html deviled eggs]].

* ''Webcomic/BrunoTheBandit'' once had to cater to Shub-Megawrath's [[http://www.brunothebandit.com/d/20010928.html pregnancy cravings]].

* In the story ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6514352/1/Pickles Pickles]]'', IronMan's beloved Pepper Potts develops a crazy craving for the things despite hating them; of course, it turns out that she's pregnant. In the sequel, ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6530311/1/Frozen-Coke Frozen Coke]]'', she develops an additional craving for... well, ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin.

** 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.

* AlysonHannigan gave up vegetarianism during her pregnancy, in favor of meat, cheese and ginger ale.

A rarer variant of this trope is where the "wackyness" of the cravings have less to do with the substance desired and more with the sheer ''quantity'' desired. In this form of WackyCravings, the comedy is how "eating for two" turns into something more like "eating for two dozen", where the pregnant woman becomes a voracious glutton who uses her pregnancy as an excuse to eat like a pig, thus turning even the most prim and diet-minded expectant woman into a shameless BigEater. To a lesser extent, this also belongs to AllPeriodsArePMS.