History Main / WackyCravings

* One mid-2000s Taco Bell commercial combines this with OvercomplicatedMenuOrder when a pregnant woman sends her husband to pick up food she has a craving for, only with the request to be something vague on the likes of "cheesy", "chewy" and "melty" before the husband (after [[Headdesk banging his head on the steering wheel]]) eventually picks up Taco Bell's featured item on the menu.

* "Oni Candy", a pregnancy fetishist fanfic of ''Manga/UruseiYatsura'' lost when its hosting website went down, 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, savagely kicking her from inside her womb unless she's eating. 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.

* In the "Hollyrock-a-bye Baby" post-series film for ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', Pebbles showcases the "wacky appetite increase" variant, where despite being in the last week of her pregnancy, she's shown devouring massive amounts of food. As in, portions equal to that of her BigEater father's usual fare -- followed by his own equally huge share!

* In ''Series/{{V 1983}}'', 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 ''Series/{{V 2009}}'', [[spoiler: Valerie (also pregnant with a hybrid),]] almost eats a mouse caught in a trap.

* More of a HilariousInHindsight moment of ''Series/TheXFiles''; 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.

* ''videoGame/CakeMania 4: Main Street'':

** Not to mention his horrified reactions to all other food: "Apples are rubbish!" "Beans are ''evil.''" "I hate yogurt, it's just stuff with bits in it" "Are you trying to poison me?" culminating with being so offended at the taste of a slice of bread and butter that he goes all the way down the hallway to the front door so he can fling it across the yard in disgust.

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* ''Cake Mania 4: Main Street'':
-->'''Tiny:''' Jill asked me to deliver a bento box for her lunch, but I cannot believe I wrote her special request down correctly. Could she actually want a maki filled with eel, olives, peanut butter and Milk Duds?
* In the Elin Forest scenario in ''Videogame/MapleStory'', which takes your character about twenty years into the past through TimeTravel, one NPC you meet is an elf named Yuris, who asks you to get Sweet and Sour Fruit from a fairy, claiming she is suddenly craving it. When you get it and deliver it to her, the conversation reveals that not only is the craving the result of pregnancy, her yet-to-be-born daughter is Kyrin, the Explorer Pirate instructor in present-day Maple World.
* ''VideoGame/TheBookOfUnwrittenTales'' being a comedy series, Ivo's enjoyment of a rather disgusting concoction serves as a positive pregnancy test.

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* [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2007/03/07 This]] ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' strip.
* Parodied in [[http://www.GiantITP.com/comics/oots0587.html this strip]] of ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'', in which a pregnant mother expresses a desire for a "peanut butter, pepperoni and pickle" sandwich:
-->'''Daigo:''' Eww! Do you really crave that?\\
'''Kazumi:''' No. It sounds disgusting. But this article in "Stereotyped Pregnancies Monthly" says that's what I should be eating.
* ''Webcomic/SisterClaire'' finds herself absentmindedly chowing down on a ''wooden mug.'' She ''is'' pregnant with the Messiah, but it's still somewhat extreme.
* [[http://plusev.keenspot.com/d/20070504.html Here]] in ''Webcomic/PlusEV''.
* ''Webcomic/TheLawOfPurple'' does have 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
* Inverted in ''{{Webcomic/Shortpacked}}'', where the normally ExtremeOmnivore Robin finds herself [[http://www.shortpacked.com/comic/cravings craving a salad.]]

* This trope gets discussed during the "Haunted Past" arc in ''Webcomic/ClanOfTheCats'', with Cynthia mentioning how her mother craved wintergreen mints and pigs' knuckles when she was pregnant with her, raspberry, chocolate, and oysters with Chelsea, and bourbon with Corrine. According to Paul, Cynthia's husband, his mother craved wood.

* In the 1987 ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles1987 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' episode "Pizza By The Shred" when Michelangelo is a "Weird Pizza" delivery boy hired by Shredder, he delivered a pickle and ice cream pizza to a pregnant woman.

* Implied in ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', as at the end of one episode [[spoiler:Jake]] is seen mixing pickles into a bowl of ice cream for [[spoiler:Lady Rainicorn]].

* Two of the ''Fractured Fairy Tales'' segments from ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' used this.
** From their take on ''Rapunzel'':
--> Darling, I know this sounds fantastic and utterly absurd, but I have an uncontrollable desire for that variety of European Bellflower.
** The adaptation of ''The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg'' has the titular goose (who initially faked laying golden eggs by painting one gold to avoid being cooked and eaten) ask the king for pickles and ice cream before she starts laying a golden egg for real.
* In the "Hollyrock-a-bye Baby" post-series film for ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'', Pebbles showcases the "wacky appetite increase" variant, where despite being in the last week of her pregnancy, she's shown devouring massive amounts of food. As in, portions equal to that of her BigEater father's usual fare -- followed by his own equally huge share!
* In the ''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies1980s'' episode "Where Do Puppies Come From?", the expectant Lucy asks Holly and Nose Marie to make her a dog food and ice cream sundae with various unorthodox toppings. After finishing it off in one bite, she then asks them to make her another one with whipped cream added.
* The ''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies2010'' episode "Pound Preemies" had Miss Petunia make demands for ice cream, pork chops, lamb chops, and chop suey when the Pound Puppies assisted her in giving birth to her puppies.

* Parodied in the "Pregnant Pause" episode of ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead''. Beavis watches a movie about a pregnant woman and [[MisterSeahorse starts getting paranoid that he might be pregnant too]] because like her, he's experiencing stomach cramps and cravings for nachos (them being his TrademarkFavoriteFood and all). Later, while getting food at a convenience store, he just blindly grabs some things in his trepidation, overhears a pregnant woman say how she's been having the strangest cravings recently, and to his horror, sees the items he picked up were canned vegetables, which he takes as a sure sign that he's pregnant. [[spoiler:As it turns out, he just needed to take a really huge dump.]]

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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]

* ''Film/AfterTheThinMan'' offers a subtle example; Nora doesn't officially announce she's pregnant until the very end of the movie, but beforehand makes odd requests like scrambled eggs at three o'clock in the morning. As she says to Nick: "And you call yourself a detective..."
* [[SubvertedTrope Nicely subverted]] in ''Film/{{Fargo}}'', as Marge Gunderson's appetite is pretty normal for any average woman... except the vast quantities of [[MustHaveCaffeine coffee]]. Incidentally, the pregnancy was only written in to accommodate Creator/FrancesMcDormand.
* In ''Den Nya Människan'', the first hint that Gertrud is pregnant is when she starts eating pickled gherkins from the pantry.
* In ''Film/LookWhosTalking'', even before she learns she's pregnant, Mollie starts having cravings that she and others pick up as strange; she eats ice cream -- which she didn't like before -- and suddenly starts to eat heartily at her mother's house, even though she was never that enthusiastic about her mom's cooking before.

* In ''Film/AvengersEndgame,'' when Tony runs into [[spoiler: his father in the past]], he's carrying a bouquet of flowers and a can of sauerkraut. They're both for his pregnant wife.
* After stress vomiting all over Ryan in ''Film/DogSoldiers'', Terry remarks he has a real craving for a kebab.

* In Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/WolvesOfTheCalla'', the character Susannah is pregnant [[spoiler: with the child of the BigBad, Roland, and a ''second'' mother]], and craves things like living frogs.
** King also plays this trope for horror in "Dedication," one of his short stories. An African-American hotel maid named Martha tells her best friend Darcy 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 Martha to gain an overwhelming desire to consume a particular guest's [[{{Squick}} semen]]. Martha 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. Before beginning this part of the tale, Martha describes the compulsion using this trope, and a terrified Darcy reminisces about her own desire for rind of pork during her pregnancy.

* In her ''Mémoires'', Laure Junot describes how she started to crave pineapple during her first pregnancy, after her mother and her mother-in-law all but convinced her that her child would be born deformed if she didn't crave anything. No big deal, right? Well, this was the early 19th century and pineapples were not in season. Cue her poor husband searching high and low for a ripe pineapple and eventually taking one from [[UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte the First Consul]]'s greenhouses... And in a textbook example of the trope, it turned out that Laure could not even stand the sight or smell of the fruit.

* ''Literature/SixteenThirtyTwo'': Giovanna Marcoli wants vinegar. On everything. Including pear preserves.
* ''Literature/HannahSwensen'':
** In ''Blueberry Muffin Murder'', Hannah notices that her sister Andrea, who tends to be obsessive about eating less and keeping her weight down, is eating a lot more than usual. It turns out she's pregnant, something even she didn't know until the very end of the book. The baby, a girl named Bethany, is born in ''Sugar Cookie Murder''.
** In ''Apple Turnover Murder'' [[spoiler: Hannah realizes that Sherri Connors' earlier "flu" was actually MorningSickness when she sees her enjoying an apple turnover dipped in mustard, with pickles on the side.]]

* An episode of ''Series/TheBrittasEmpire'' had a pregnant Julie eating pencils and ''coal''.
* ''Series/TwoPintsOfLagerAndAPacketOfCrisps'': when Louise is pregnant, she takes out a large lump of coal and bites into it as one would an apple.
* In ''Series/{{V 1983}}'', 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 ''Series/{{V 2009}}'', [[spoiler: Valerie (also pregnant with a hybrid),]] almost eats a mouse caught in a trap.
* 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.

* On ''Series/SesameStreet'', during Maria's pregnancy with Gabriella, her cravings led her to try Grouch cuisine, which is always depicted as very disgusting mash-ups such as marshmallow sauce over fish -- and she ''loves'' it, much to Oscar's delight (and Luis's disgust).
* An episode of ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' finds Xena, Gabrielle, and some young friends ordering food in a tavern. Xena orders something extremely bizarre that everyone else notices except her. Later it's revealed that she is pregnant with Eve (no, not [[Literature/TheBible that Eve]]).
* Parodied in ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' with a fantasy sequence where Dr. Cox brought Jordan a live goat during her pregnancy. The same episode has her threatening to [[ImAHumanitarian eat Turk]] if he keeps interrupting her during a conversation.
* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' features this, 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.
* On ''Series/{{Friends}}'', ethical vegetarian Phoebe is horrified when she starts craving meat while pregnant. Attempting to trick her body with meat substitutes like soy or tofu doesn't work and just makes her nauseous. She eventually trades with Joey, who promises not to eat meat throughout the rest of her pregnancy in order to balance out the universe.
* Vala requests pancakes and brownie fudge ice cream during her pregnancy on ''Series/StargateSG1''. Incidentally, this was before she got around to telling anyone in the SGC, though a sharp-eyed viewer would have noticed.
* In the third season premiere of ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', Rita is constantly craving chocolate pudding. When Dexter comes home to find her making more, he comments on it. Rita responds by freezing and then saying, "Oh, shit. I've done this before... I'm pregnant!"
* On ''Series/SavedByTheBell'', Mr. Belding's pregnant wife asks for a combination of ginger ale and peanut butter. [[CloudCuckooLander Screech]] notes that's his favorite.

--> '''Rose:''' Now you come into the kitchen with me, honey, I'll get you some pickles and ice cream.
--> '''Mary:''' Oh, no thanks, I don't have any strange cravings yet.
--> '''[[CloudCuckooLander Rose:]]''' ...strange?
* Male example: [[TheMovieBuff Merton]] gets them during an episode of ''Series/BigWolfOnCampus'', after being impregnated by an alien.
* On ''Series/QuantumLeap'', after Sam leaps into the body of pregnant woman, he craves Jello and onions. In another scene, Sam is eating radishes after dipping them in marshmallow fluff.

* In one episode of ''Series/ThreesCompany'', Cindy is MistakenForPregnant by Jack and Janet. One thing that supposedly confirms their suspicions is when Janet sees Cindy making a tuna fish and jelly sandwich.
* ''Series/DoctorWho'' has a non-pregnancy-related example: 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.
** Not to mention his horrified reactions to all other food: "Apples are rubbish!" "Beans are ''evil.''" "I hate yogurt, it's just stuff with bits in it" "Are you trying to poison me?" culminating with being so offended at the taste of a slice of bread and butter that he goes all the way down the hallway to the front door so he can fling it across the yard in disgust.
** The comedy special ''Recap/TheFiveishDoctorsReboot'' features a scene where a pregnant Georgia Moffett eats ice cream using an enormous celery stalk as a scoop. (Her father Creator/PeterDavison's Doctor costume famously featured a celery stalk.)
* Happens in the Australian SitCom ''Series/HomeSweetHome'' where Maria started craving things like fruit salad and tomato sauce while pregnant. Results in a false trip to the hospital for what turns out to be indigestion.

* During one episode of ''Croc Diaries,'' Steve Irwin's wife Terri decides to tell him about her second pregnancy by setting up a meal of pickles and ice cream and mentioning the craving when Steve walks in, and you can watch the wheels in his head turn in realization.
* On an episode of ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'', Samantha has weird cravings during her pregnancy; being a witch, her magic causes whatever food she wants to appear in her hand. She gets that fixed, but then when she has a craving it instead causes her to go to where the food is.
* More of a HilariousInHindsight moment of ''Series/TheXFiles''; 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 ''Series/{{Grimm}}'' episode "Endangered" the Glühenvolk (glowing blue Wesen who are the source of UFO myths) crave cow ovaries when pregnant. That's the reason for [[AliensStealCattle cattle mutilations]].
* In the ''Series/{{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.
* At one point in the 2004 [=ITV=] ''Series/{{Marple}}'' adaptation of ''Literature/TheMurderAtTheVicarage'', Griselda Clement (the vicar's wife) asks for apricot chutney to season her meal, from which Miss Marple deduces that Griselda is pregnant.
* ''Series/MadMen'': The Drapers' neighbor Francine Hanson, pregnant near the beginning of Season 1, says while preparing snacks with Betty for Sally's birthday party in Episode 3, "All this one wants is raw hamburger. What does ''that'' say?"
* In ''Series/TheFosters'', Lena eats spaghetti and potato chips for breakfast because "the baby wants it".
* 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.
* In ''Series/BellaAndTheBulldogs'', one sign that Pepper's mom is pregnant is that Pepper sees her eating peanut butter sandwiches...dipped in mayo.
* In the episode "Duck, Duck, Gnocchi" of ''Series/CutthroatKitchen'' a chef must choose from a selection of savory ingredients to add to her ice cream sandwich. She chooses to add cottage cheese to her chocolate sauce:
-->'''Alton Brown:''' Cottage cheese and chocolate? Sounds good and I'm not even pregnant!
* Averted on ''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.

* When Phoebe was pregnant on ''Series/Charmed1998,'' she didn't have any particular cravings. Her unborn demon child, on the other hand, had a habit of turning whatever she was trying to eat into raw meat. Which, interestingly enough, was not the worst of the symptoms.
* Discussed in ''Series/{{Cheers}}'' when Carla was pregnant. Diane was having a roast beef sandwich for lunch and Carla sat down with her to have her lunch as well. She brings up the strange cravings pregnant women tend to have, using her lunch as an example: green olives, pimentos, and anchovies. It was ultimately subverted. Carla was really trying to make Diane lose her appetite so she could take her lunch.
* In the ''Series/HappyDays'' episode "Great Expectations," Dierdre, a beatnik girl staying at the Cunninghams' house while her car is being repaired, turns out to be pregnant. Howard and Marion find out when they notice her adding jelly beans to her egg salad sandwich.
* In the final episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' Penny shows her pregnancy by eating pickled herring and salted cod. She is in Norway, after all (for Sheldon and Amy's Nobel Prize), but is later heard throwing it all up.
* {{Subverted}} in ''Series/TwoPointFourChildren'' when Rona is sent for a pregnancy test when she starts gaining cravings for stuff such as beetroot sandwiches. It's actually not the symptoms of pregnancy at all, but a case of Diabetes.

* A commercial for Aldi grocery has a woman saying she likes ice cream from that store as much as the product from the higher-priced stores (it's the formula for this ad campaign), then adding she likes pickles with her ice cream. Her husband's response? "[[ComicallyMissingThePoint You've been eating a lot of weird things lately; I dunno... Is everything all right at work?]]"
** There was a similar advert for mayonnaise, where a woman says she likes to eat it with cereal, and remarks that most people would think she's pregnant... [[ExplainExplainOhCrap before realizing she most likely is]].
* Cadbury's Cream Eggs 'How Do You Eat Yours' featured a pregnant woman in one of their ads. She liked dipping chips into it.

[[folder:Anime and Manga]]

* Briefly happens in ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'' when Kushina is pregnant in a flashback.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderWoman'': In the first issue of Volume 6, 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 ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty'', a pregnant Rosebud says, "Fetch me a pickle milkshake."

* 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.
* In ''Literature/TheDiscreetPrincess'', a prince seduces two daughters of a king he hates, but the third, Finette (the one he ''really'' hates), manages to outwit him (with the added bonus of a number of injuries to him). Naturally, he holds a grudge. So, in order to draw her out of the tower where the sisters are locked, he leaves a few fruits outside, fully aware that the sisters will be begging Finette to get them these at all cost.

* In the story ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6514352/1/Pickles Pickles]]'', ComicBook/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 ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6686569/1/Meeting-Bill Meeting Bill]]'' Hermione eats peanut-butter curry, asparagus, rice and chicken.
* In ''Fanfic/{{Windfall}}'', Pinkie Pie mentions a few of the cravings had by an expecting Fluttershy, including [[AlliterativeList pickles, pimentos, and pistachios]].

* In ''Fanfic/TimeFixersNicktoonsOfTheFuture'', Cindy is shown to be craving pork rinds and purple flurp while pregnant with Max.
* 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.
* Klatchian Migratory Bog Truffles are a gourmet foodstuff on the Literature/{{Discworld}}. They are so prized by gourmets that they will pay vast sums for a meal where the chef has ensured there is no trace of bog truffles in it whatsoever. Johanna Smith-Rhodes, recently married Assassin, is happy for this state of affairs to continue with regard to her own diet. Until she gets pregnant and develops an inconvenient craving. For the foul-tasting Klatchian Migratory Bog Truffle. She discovers her taste buds have been out-voted by her foetus and its life support systems in ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11536013/3/Hyperemesis-gravidarum Hyperemesis Gravidarum]]'' by Creator/AAPessimal.
* In the ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/8935062/1/Shards-To-A-Whole Shards to a Whole]]'', Abby, during her first pregnancy, is constantly eating frozen blueberries. This also becomes her go-to substitute for Caf-Pow, as she opts to kick the caffeine habit while pregnant.
* In [[https://www.fanfiction.net/u/926223/beautifulpurpleflame Beautifulpurpleflame]]'s ''Little Cherub'' series, [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/2832303/1/The-Little-Cherub-III the third fic]] starts with a five months pregnant Starfire raiding the fridge... for ordinary food instead of her regular mustard and candy mixes.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7501505/5/Unexpected-developments Unexpected developments]]'' a pregnant Harry has a cheese, banana and chocolate sauce toasty. Lucius comments that he thinks he preferred Harry's previous craving -- cucumbers dipped in lime ice cream.

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

* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11310705/1/Pineapple-Cravings Pineapple Cravings]]'' a pregnant Harry has an omelet with cinnamon, jalapenos, strawberry yogurt, relish and Nutella, with a side of grapefruit with hot sauce.
* ''Fanfic/ExcusesExcuses'': Cadance has cravings for pickles. She claims it's because she needs to replenish her electrolytes due to peeing more.
* In the ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'' story "The Birth Of Psycheliana", Smurfette had a craving for bugs, flowers, and dirt when she was pregnant with Empath's child.

* ''Fanfic/HowTheLightGetsIn'': Chapter 1 has a flashback to Laurel's pregnancy, where she wakes up at 3am and "needs" a milkshake and a hot dog with sauerkraut, nacho cheese, and extra mustard "from this specific bodega across from this specific park." They ''both'' go to get it, and when Dean asks if they can go home now, Laurel gets upset.
-->"What if I'm still hungry after I finish this?"
** Later she, after having given birth, discusses this with a pregnant Lyla.
-->'''Lyla:''' The other day I cried because I wanted chocolate cake and I didn't have any so I have no idea how I'm feeling.
-->'''Laurel:''' ''(chuckles)'' I've been there. When I was eight months pregnant, I had this intense craving for fried chicken from Ezell's slathered in honey mustard. I sent my husband out to get it at like eight thirty at night and he came home with the chicken... and honey. Not honey mustard. Just plain honey. No mustard in sight. I sat down on my kitchen floor and cried. Like, full on sobbed.
-->'''Lyla:''' But did he rectify his mistake?
-->'''Laurel:''' No, that was the worst part. By the time he got the food home to me, Ezell's was closed.
-->'''Lyla:''' That might be the saddest story I've ever heard.

* ''Fanfic/ADiplomaticVisit'': In chapter 9 of the third story, ''Diplomacy Through Schooling'', Aria and Cadance talk about these.
** Cadance apparently had one for cucumber and banana slices mixed with cold rice and bleu cheese dressing, which Aria finds weird but Cadance says is good for replenishing electrolytes (and Shining Armor admits to liking it too). She'd also craved anchovy, sour cream and steak sauce tacos at one point, which Sonata also liked. Aria and Shining Armor, however, react with disgust when they're reminded of ''that'' particular combo.
** Luna's mostly been craving sugar water for her pregnancy.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4642294/32/Sacrifices Sacrifices]]'' a pregnant Harry has an omelet with blue cheese, olives and pickles, topped with hot sauce. This is accompanied by a radish and onion smoothie.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7559833/11/Unexpected Unexpected]]'' a pregnant Harry has a bowl of lemon custard with peanut butter cups, Bertie Botts beans and candy cane bits.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9882526/11/Mockingbird Mockingbird]]'' a pregnant Harry has canned peaches, pickles and blood pudding covered in hot sauce.
-->'''Draco:''' The traditional craving is supposed to be pickles and ice cream. You're missing half the equation.\\
'''Harry:''' No I'm not. Last night when you all had fallen asleep I was in the kitchen having a fish sticks, ice cream and chocolate syrup snack.
* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11082610/1/Oxytocin Oxytocin]]'' a pregnant Harry has tomato and potato croquettes dipped in orange juice and vanilla sundae.
* In ''Fanfic/OSMUFanfictionFriction'', Oswald, who mistakenly believes he's pregnant after becoming paranoid that the author will write him as such, decides to eat Cheerios and jalapeno peppers bathed in 7-Up soda, with Orla (who is not pregnant) following him to eat the same thing. He eventually is determined by Oprah to not be pregnant, as the author had no intentions to make him pregnant.
* In the ''Manga/FairyTail'' fanfic ''[[https://m.fanfiction.net/s/11198229/1/Goodbye-My-Love Goodbye, My Love]]'', not only does Erza's pregnancy cause her to find sour lemons delicious, but it also makes her ill towards [[TrademarkFavoriteFood strawberries]].

* In the final episode of ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'' Penny shows her pregnancy by eating pickled herring and salted cod. She is in Norway, after all (for Sheldon and Amy's Nobel Prize), but is later heard throwing it all up.[[/folder]]

* On ''Series/QuantumLeap'', after Sam leaps into the body of pregnant woman, he craves Jello and onions.

** Anti-Wanda eats a sandwich made of couch cushions and cheese wiz, a door handle and a bite from Anti-Cosmo's monitor of every fairy and their Anti-Fairy counterpart when she is pregnant with Poof's Anti-Fairy counterpart Foop.

** Anti-Wanda eats a sandwich made of couch cushions and cheese wiz, a chunk of the nearby wall and a bite from Anti-Cosmo's monitor of every fairy and their Anti-Fairy counterpart when she is pregnant with Poof's Anti-Fairy counterpart Foop.

* Briefly in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'', while [[MisterSeahorse Cosmo]] was pregnant with Poof, he ate Timmy's collection of vintage baseball cards.

** [[http://notalwaysright.com/hell-hath-no-fury-like-a-pregnant-woman-scorned This]] entry, in which a woman sends her husband out for a mint chocolate candy bar, which the cashier thinks of as "the most unappetizing candy in the store".

A case of TruthInTelevision -- some women actually ''do'' crave inedible things or unusual foods 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 [[AllPeriodsArePMS "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.

* In the story ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6514352/1/Pickles Pickles,]]'' ComicBook/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 ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7501505/5/Unexpected-developments Unexpected developments]]'' a pregnant Harry has a cheese, banana and chocolate sauce toasty. Lucius comments that he thinks he preferred Harry's previous craving - cucumbers dipped in lime ice cream.

* ''Fanfic/ExcusesExcuses'': Cadence has cravings for pickles. She claims it's because she needs to replenish her electrolytes due to peeing more.

-->'''Laurel:''' ''(chuckles)'' I've been there. When I was eight months pregnant, I had this intense craving for fried chicken from Ezell's slathered in honey mustard. I sent my husband out to get it at like eight thirty at night and he came home with the chicken...and honey. Not honey mustard. Just plain honey. No mustard in sight. I sat down on my kitchen floor and cried. Like, full on sobbed.

** Cadence apparently had one for cucumber and banana slices mixed with cold rice and bleu cheese dressing, which Aria finds weird but Cadance says is good for replenishing electrolytes (and Shining Armor admits to liking it too). She'd also craved anchovy, sour cream and steak sauce tacos at one point, which Sonata also liked. Aria and Shining Armor, however, react with disgust when they're reminded of ''that'' particular combo.
** Luna's mostly been craving sugar water for her pregnancy.

* In ''Film/LookWhosTalking'', even before she learns she's pregnant, Mollie starts having cravings that she and others pick up as strange; she eats ice cream - which she didn't like before - and suddenly starts to eat heartily at her mother's house, even though she was never that enthusiastic about her mom's cooking before.

* When Lucy is "expecting" Little Ricky on ''Series/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. At the end of the episode, she's switched to sardines with pistachio ice cream and hot fudge. In RealLife, the ice cream and fudge were "played" by mashed potatoes and gravy - but the sardines, which had to show up on camera for effect, were the genuine article. Lucille Ball later said she never ate sardines again after that.

* Some hypothesize that various isotopes, such as Carbon-13, are necessary for long-term health in a baby. Since we do not currently keep track of these on nutritional labels, it's not that far a stretch to imagine a pregnant woman developing cravings for odd foodstuffs that have contained these isotopes in the past - only to lose interest as soon as she finds that the particular samples brought back lack them.

* ''Website/NotAlwaysRight'' has a [[https://notalwaysright.com/anchovy-versus-pineapple-why-not-work-together/156489/ story]] about a pregnant woman who ordered a mushroom-pineapple-anchovy pizza. At first, the pizza guy thought it was a joke. When he arrived at her house, he asked her to eat a slice and then told her the workers had a bet on whether or not it was a prank. Since it wasn't, he gave it to her for free.

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* Creator/AlanKing said in a bit that his wife told him she was pregnant by waking him up at two in the morning and asking him to go get her an ice cream sundae with a ridiculously long list of toppings, "and a sour pickle".
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* On ''Series/{{Friends}}'', pregnant vegetarian Phoebe craves meat, much to her horror. Attempting to trick her body with meat substitutes like soy or tofu doesn't work and just makes her nauseous. She eventually trades with Joey, who promises not to eat meat throughout the rest of her pregnancy in order to balance out the universe.