History Main / WackyCravings

* ''Fractured Fairy Tales'':

* One ad had a pregnant woman ask her husband to go out for something *insert adjective ending in "ewy" here*, adding a different quality even as he's getting in the car.

** King also plays this trope for horror in "Dedication," one of his short stories. An African-American hotel maid tells her best friend the story of how she became pregnant decades ago with the help of a Haitian "bruja," or magic, woman named Mama Delorme. For the pregnancy to work, Mama Delorme bewitches the narrator to gain an overwhelming desire to consume a particular guest's [[{{Squick}} semen]]. The narrator describes the horror of entering the guest's room every day, swearing that she wasn't going to do it...only to find herself physically incapable of resisting, and sometimes "coming to" in the middle of the process.

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 find; (b) [[ExtremeOmnivore isn't actually ''food'']] or (c) both.

* In ''WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp'', Darling sends her husband out into a January snowstorm to get watermelon... and chop suey.

** Played straight when at a carnival, a food stand operator instructs King "you and the mother-to-be take care, alright?" when their order contains 4 pickles fried like corn dogs to which King replies that his wife just likes pickles. Bailey then chirps "I don't usually go for fried food but I ''am'' eating for 4 now." to King's shock.

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novel ''Discworld/GuardsGuards!'', the pet dragon that ends up foisted upon Vimes has these, but not because it's pregnant... [[spoiler:it's because he's instinctively transforming himself into a living jet engine.]]

** Later she, after having given birth, and discusses this with a pregnant Lyla.

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': In "Forbidden Fruit", Lindsay (who is pregnant) has a whole bunch of weird food laid out on the lab table as part of an investigation into a poisoning. Mac walks in and comments that he hopes this isn't one of her cravings.

* In the first issue of the current ''ComicBook/SpiderWoman'' title, where Jessica is heavily pregnant, she's seen scarfing ice cream almost continuously. In fact, the main plot of the story starts when she ditches the empty pint container in the trash.

* 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 ''Notes From the Grandmaster'', which is SupplementalMaterial for the FanFic/ElementalChessTrilogy, Riza is shown desperately wanting fried fish and lemonade, and has a tendency to wake Roy in the middle of the night to make it for her.

* ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/214973/where-is-my-love Where Is My Love?]]'': Fluttershy, after becoming pregnant, enjoys marshmallows dipped in mustard.

* In ''Disney/LadyAndTheTramp'', Darling sends her husband out into a January snowstorm to get watermelon... and chop suey.

* [[http://notalwaysright.com/hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-pregnant-woman-scorned This]] Website/NotAlwaysRight entry.
* Played with in [[http://notalwaysright.com/showered-with-irresponsibility 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.]]

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* On ''Series/{{Friends}}'', pregnant vegetarian Phoebe craves meat, much to her horror. She trades with Joey, who promises not to eat meat throughout the rest of her pregnancy in order to balance out the universe.

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 wacky craving, 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.

* 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). When Jack brings this up, however, his wife simply idly wonders if [[ObnoxiousInLaws her mother would like to stay with them]].
* A UK [=McDonalds=] ad shows a pregnant woman searching the fridge and not finding what she's looking for, so her husband goes out to find it, but the late-night grocers and petrol station are sold out, and everywhere else is shut. Eventually he tries Maccy D's, and returns with a burger box containing just the pickles.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8021068/21/White-Owl White Owl]]'' the Scarlet Witch, while pregnant with Nightcrawler's child, makes herself anchovies with sour cream and tabasco sauce.

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4352075/25/True-love True love]]'' a pregnant Harry eats a Belgian waffle with fried onions, horseradish and chocolate sprinkles.

** The same subversion appears in the prequel novel ''Belgarath The Sorcerer'', when Poledra is pregnant with the twins.

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* Parodied in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' when Dr Cox brought Jordan a live goat.

* In ''Series/TheYoungOnes'', when Vivyan is pregnant[[spoiler: or rather, when he has a bad case of trapped wind]],he expresses an uncontrollable craving for a piece of fried lavatory paper. Unfortunately, he'd finished the last roll the previous week.

* ''Webcomic/TheLawOfPurple'' does has people mentioning a few on [[http://lawofpurple.comicdish.com/index.php?pageID=1112 this page]] and a few of them are going for the most bizarre combo award

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** There was a non-pregnancy one in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' where Granda Max got turned into a giant alien slug. After being turned back to normal he said "Why do I have this strange craving for rotten eggs in sugar water?"

** It is still encouraged in parts of West Africa. In Ghana, for example, ground up clay in little sticks known as "ayilo" can be found on sale just about everywhere. Some people acquire quite a taste for them and eat them just for fun.

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

** There's also an {{Inversion}}--pregnant women often find that foods which they normally enjoy sound completely unappetizing.

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 wacky craving, 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.

%% Compare PregnancyMakesYouCrazy.

* 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 {{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]].

* Fiona becomes pregnant in''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird''. When asked if she has had any cravings, she says no while eating cake, then sniffs and says, "Do you smell ham?"

* ''WesternAnimation/ShrekTheThird'' presents Princess Fiona as pregnant. When asked if she has had any cravings, she says no while eating cake, then sniffs and says, "Do you smell ham?"