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12	Chocolate is a well-liked sweet, but in fiction, it's treated as the TrademarkFavoriteFood and occasionally even GRatedDrug for not only the {{Sweet Tooth}}ed but an entire gender. Adult or child, the female sex in general absolutely adores chocolate in fiction and many jokes are themed around female characters' love of it. Whether it be normal mood, [[AllPeriodsArePMS PMS]], or [[WackyCravings pregnancy]], this trope is usually stereotypical.
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14	Contrast with RealMenHateSugar, where male characters hate anything remotely sweet. Compare to ChocolateOfRomance, with which it sometimes overlaps, and HeartbreakAndIceCream. TruthInTelevision for some, but not for others.
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17	!!Examples:
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21	[[folder:Advertising]]
22	* Chocolate commercials have a tendency to be aimed at women. They also often either [[ICantBelieveItsNotHeroin make it seem addicting]] or [[EroticEating make eating chocolate borderline sensual.]]
23	* Milk Tray produced an iconic series of adverts [[https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/lifestyle/food-and-drink/2456665/throwback-thursday-and-it-was-because-the-lady-loves-milk-tray/ from 1968 to 2016,]] starring the Milk Tray Man. A mysterious, [[Franchise/JamesBond Bond-esque]] man in black braves death and danger, and sneers at obstacles, to visit a lady solely for the purpose of delivering a box of chocolates and a calling card. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV3H1MikGxE&list=PLF91338C7DBD0B453&index=2 And all because the lady loves Milk Tray.]]
24	* An advertisement for the Toyota [=RAV4=] has a family of four who meet a genie. The mom wishes she could eat all the chocolate she wants. However, [[JackassGenie due to the genie's nature]], she was given a medical condition in which she must eat chocolate to survive.
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27	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
28	* ''Anime/BangDream'': Rimi Ushigome, the bassist of Poppin' Party, loves chocolate foods, which happens to coincidentally includes her TrademarkFavoriteFood, chocolate cornets. Coincidentally, she has a character song with the title ''Chocolate no Teion Recipe'' (Chocolate Bass Recipe), and in the 1st season of the anime itself, she and her older sister wrote the song ''Watashi no Kokoro wa Choco Cornet'' (My Heart is a Choco Cornet).
29	* In ''Manga/OnePiece'', the rabbit girl Carrot has chocolate as one of her two {{trademark favorite food}}s. ([[StockAnimalDiet The other, naturally, is carrots]].)
30	* ''Anime/PrettyCure'':
31	** In ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'', Nagisa really loves chocolate, a trait carried into the English dub as well (in one OnTheNext segment, she begs Honoka for some). In ''[[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureMaxHeart MaX Heart]]'', she even gets to eat a giant chocolate cake.
32	** In ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar'', while not to the extent of Nagisa, Saki also enjoys chocolate sweets.
33	** Episode 34 of ''Anime/GoPrincessPrettyCure'' opens with Kirara, Pafu, and Haruka eating a box of chocolates.
34	** Toyed with in ''Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode''; all the Cures are female and have different sweets as their theme, but it's the {{bifauxnen}} Akira/Cure Chocolat who's associated with chocolate.
35	** In ''Anime/HugttoPrettyCure'', when Ruru starts eating food for energy instead of electricity, she takes a liking to dark chocolate.
36	** In Episode 16 of ''Anime/StarTwinklePrettyCure'', Madoka makes Fuwa a chocolate-covered banana to eat.
37	** In ''Anime/TropicalRougePrettyCure'', Sango enjoys strawberry-chocolate ice cream.
38	** Downplayed in ''Anime/DeliciousPartyPrettyCure''; when given a choice between vanilla, chocolate, and marble cake, only Kokone chooses the straight chocolate cake, while Yui and Ran choose vanilla and Amane chooses marble.
39	** Downplayed in ''Anime/HirogaruSkyPrettyCure''; Ageha mentions that she likes white chocolate in her lattes.
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42	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
43	* Cathy Guisewite's noseless protagonist ''ComicStrip/{{Cathy}}'' routinely consoles herself with chocolate after a stressful day. Often, if Cathy has to lose an [="AACK!"=], she'll dive into a box of chocolates facefirst as though it was a hog trough.
44	* ''ComicBook/{{Rocky}}'': Parodied in one strip where Rocky and his friends talk about the summer's new ice cream commercials, specifically the chocolate-heavy ''Magnum'' brand, and how they shamelessly target women, only for the punchline to point out that men are targeted as well, [[AllMenArePerverts albeit with a different appeal]].
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47	[[folder:Fan Works]]
48	!!General
49	* In some ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse Loud House]]'' gender-bend fanfics (such as [[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12270178/4/Linka-and-her-brothers "Linka and Chocolate"]]), ''Linka'' (Lincoln's female counterpart) is the chocoholic.
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51	!!Specific examples
52	* In ''Fanfic/GlitterForceIntoTheGlitterverse'', Nagisa's username is "chocolatelover1".
53	* In ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'', [[Characters/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrailChloeCerise Chloe Cerise]] is shown having a Black Forest cheesecake for her Unbirthday in The Library of Flying Books Car and in the Plush Penguin Car -- which is a car where penguins like making ice cream treats -- she's shown having a mint chocolate ice cream cone. Future chapters have her indulge in more of these sweets like wanting to dip food into a large chocolate fountain or melting chocolate down to mix it with tea. The author notes reveal that she loves mint-chocolate sweets and her love of mint chocolate ice cream comes from her father.
54	* In the ''Anime/FutariWaPrettyCure'' {{drabble}} "[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/44831677 Nagisa's Invention]]", Nagisa invents a machine that can coat things in chocolate, her favourite food.
55	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' fic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12650047/53/Strandpiel Strandpiel]]'' sees a young witch join the City Watch Air Division. Whilst at the Air Station at Pseudopolis Yard -- one of the best-guarded places in the City -- a young assassin who is enamoured of her risks arrest to sneak in. A man in black, braving danger and peril, [[ShoutOut all because the lady loves Higgs And Meakins' Milk Chocolate Platter]]. It works. She is absolutely delighted and kisses him for the first time. He even bribes a Watch sergeant with her favourite chocolate so that she lets him off with a caution. The link takes you to the works of author Creator/AAPessimal.
56	* In the ''Franchise/HarryPotter'' fanfic ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3039070/1/What-Witches-Really-Want What Witches Really Want]]'', Harry gains six girlfriends purely because of his unique ability to conjure up bars of chocolate that taste exactly like the real thing with none of the calories.
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59	[[folder:Films -- Animation]]
60	* Both Anna and Elsa in ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen\|2013}}'' like chocolate, with Anna having more than a few lines mentioning it. According to the book ''Literature/AFrozenHeart'', they inherited their SweetTooth from their mother Iduna.
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63	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
64	%%* ''Film/{{Aliens}}''. Ripley tries to get through to a traumatized Newt with hot chocolate.
65	* ''Film/AlitaBattleAngel''. When asked what her favourite food is, Alita explains that she can't remember anything about her past so she doesn't know, but so far it's oranges. Hugo then buys her a chocolate bar. She squees at the taste, later asking Ido for some when she gets home.
66	* Parodied in ''Film/DownWithLove''. The first chapter of Ms. Novak's book teaches women to abstain from sex altogether until they can learn to enjoy life the way a man does. To deal with the difficulties with this, they are taught a self-pleasuring technique ''([[AllMenArePerverts All men lean forward in interest]])'' in the second part of her book, titled "Up With Chocolate" ''(All men fall back in disappointment)''.
67	* In ''Film/MyFairLady'', Higgins manages to mollify an angry Eliza by physically putting a piece of chocolate into her mouth. She stops talking and eats it quietly, and then mutters, "[[IMeantToDoThat I wouldn't 'ave 'et it, only I'm too ladylike to spit it out.]]"
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70	[[folder:Literature]]
71	* Literature/BridgetJones is described as eating copious amounts of Milk Tray, Dairy Box (boxed chocolates sold in the UK), and chocolate croissants.
72	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
73	** Zigzagged in ''Literature/ThiefOfTime''. Susan loves chocolate but has a strict regime of how much she allows herself (well, fairly strict -- it doesn't count if it was nougat). Myria/Unity is drawn to it (but doesn't dare eat any until the end, given what even a piece of dry toast does to her taste buds). Meanwhile, Lu-Tze thinks it's OK, but doesn't really see the appeal, preferring liquorice.
74	** In ''Literature/SoulMusic'', it's mentioned that Susan's mother Ysabell was fond of a dessert called, not merely "Death" but [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_by_Chocolate Genocide by Chocolate]].
75	* In ''Literature/OnlyEverYours'', Freida secretly craves chocolate despite her eating disorder (and the School's strict enforcement of target weights). Chastity-Ruth even tells her it's obvious chocolate is Freida's favorite food.
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78	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
79	* In ''Series/ThirtyRock'', Liz Lemon loves junk food in general and has incredibly unhealthy eating habits, including devouring any chocolate out in front of her. In one episode, Tracy tells Liz that she made the newspapers and shows her a ''ComicStrip/{{Cathy}}'' strip, believing that it is her as he has apparently heard her says "Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate, AACK!" at least once.
80	* ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'': In "The Gothowitz Deviation", Sheldon subtly uses chocolate as positive reinforcement to train Penny to behave in a manner more to his liking. Leonard is insulted on his girlfriend's behalf, but the modifications do work.
81	* In ''Series/TheNanny'', Fran says that one of the rules of the [[TheBroCode Official Girlfriend's Code]] is that when it comes to chocolate, it's every girl for herself.
82	* Like their [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 movie counterparts]], Elsa and Anna in ''Series/OnceUponATime'' both love chocolate. During one scene, Elsa prepares a chocolate-themed party for Anna, including chocolate fondue and chocolate pastries. She briefly considers chocolate ice cream but decides that would be too obvious.
83	* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'': [[TheEmpath Troi]] has a ritual regarding eating a chocolate sundae. "Chocolate [[SeriousBusiness is a serious thing]]." Ironically enough, Marina Sirtis, the actor who played Troi, ''hated'' chocolate. However, this is downplayed as it is clearly a Troi thing, not a lady thing. [[TheMedic Dr. Crusher]], [[ActionGirl Yar]], [[MoodSwinger Ro]], and [[TheConfidant Guinan]] are not seen eating or talking about chocolate, and several male characters are seen eating chocolate in alternate realities. [[note]]That'd be [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Worf]] and [[TheCaptain Picard]] in the episode with Worf's birthday for starters.[[/note]]
84	* Geraldine in ''Series/TheVicarOfDibley''. In "Animals" she deals with stress by eating 562 Crunchies in one night and in "The Easter Bunny" she has a [[BookSafe hollowed-out Bible]] with a giant Galaxy bar inside. When the villagers got her a chocolate fountain for her birthday in the 2004 ChristmasEpisode, she gave up on dipping things in it and just stuck her head in.
85	* The "Menstruation Orientation" sketch from ''[[Series/{{KeyAndPeele}} Key & Peele]]'' climaxes with the instructors telling their audience to "get your bitch some CHOCOLATE!"
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88	[[folder:Poetry]]
89	* In the poem ''Oranges'' by Gary Soto, the narrator is a boy walking with a girl for the first time. They go to a drugstore and he asks her to choose something. She chooses a chocolate that costs a dime, but he only has a nickel. When he puts the nickel and one of the oranges he's carrying on the counter, the cashier silently understands and accepts it.
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92	[[folder:Video Games]]
93	* A turn-of-the-millennium RTS game called ''Alien Nations'' features 3 factions: blue-skinned aliens called Pimmons, generic insectoids called Sajiki, and a matriarchal human-like race called Amazons. Pimmons and Sajiki featured mostly male characters, while Amazons were mostly female. Each race had their specialty product: Pimmons had "Mushroom juice", Sajiki had "Maggot lollipops" (not-so-subtle expies of alcohol and cigars, respectively). Amazons had chocolate cakes.
94	* Ashley of ''VideoGame/AnotherCode'' likes sweets and candy in general, so she likes it as well. It's one of the first things that allows her to bond with her father, who's an even bigger fan of the stuff than she is.
95	* Beatrix from ''VideoGame/{{Battleborn}}'' has a thing for chocolate. One of her projects she sought approval for in the [[https://forums.gearboxsoftware.com/t/battleplan-30-12-8-16/1551959 Battleplan 30's lore]] was Project LIMOS (Lingual Impulse Modulation by Olfactory Supersession). It apparently was a proposal to research the effects of chocolate on the behavior of Arch-Sciences researchers. When asked about this by the Mistress of Sciences, Lady Vurien, Beatrix's response was, "'''Everybody likes chocolate'''".
96	* In ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'' Kokonoe, being a GeniusSweetTooth, loves sweets, but especially Ferrero Rocher chocolates.
97	* ''VideoGame/CrushCrush'': Well, every girl can be given chocolates to get them to like you more, Ayano has them as her preferred Gift, and others request them too, as requirements to get to the next Relationship Level. Like BigEater Bearverly, who wants 50 boxes to get through Frenemy Level.
98	* In ''VideoGame/NinjaPizzaGirl'', chocolate is one of the items Gemma can buy to restore her SanityMeter after it's taken a beating.
99	* ''VideoGame/StoryOfSeasons2014'': A lot of the female bachelorettes and villagers like chocolate dishes and foods. For Lillie and Elise chocolate dishes are their most favorite food (Chocolate Ice Cream and Chocolate Fondue respectively), and chocolate dishes are also highly liked by Corona, Melanie, the otherwise uptight Margot, the female nature sprite Pepita, and your daughter (who just likes [[SweetTooth desserts in general]]). One of the few to defy this is Dessie, the young Nature Goddess, who only likes desserts based on her favorite crops (and that doesn't include chocolate).
100	* Ibuki from ''Franchise/StreetFighter'' states she loves and [[https://i.imgur.com/WiQe0Sj.jpg desires chocolate cake]] after battle as one of her win quotes. According to her, it is the "breakfast of champions".
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103	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
104	* Kyoko Kirigiri in ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' mentions in School Mode that she enjoys chocolate to help her stay awake during long investigations, sometimes combined with [[MustHaveCaffeine coffee.]]
105	* In ''VisualNovel/LongLiveTheQueen'', Elodie will usually receive a present of chocolates at some point. Despite the numerous signs that there's something fishy about these anonymously sent chocolates in a game where assassination attempts on one's life are common, Elodie [[TooDumbToLive can still choose to eat them]] (and if you don't pass any of the skill checks, she ''will'' automatically eat them). And then [[TheManyDeathsOfYou promptly keel over dead]] from [[TamperingWithFoodAndDrink the poison inside the chocolates]].
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108	[[folder:Webcomics]]
109	* Guenevere in ''Webcomic/ArthurKingOfTimeAndSpace'', to the extent that in the baseline arc, she has a vague sense that chocolate ''exists'' and is depressed it won't be discovered in her lifetime.
110	* In ''Webcomic/{{Shortpacked}}'', Robin [=DeSanto=] once ate a whole cereal bowl of Cadbury Cream Eggs and, because she is [[GenkiGirl so hyper]] [[SuperSpeed already]], she blacked out for four months and woke up a U.S. Representative.
111	* The titular character of ''Webcomic/TheWorldOfVickiFox'' enjoys chocolate.
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114	[[folder:Web Videos]]
115	* When WebVideo/CinemaSins dissected ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen\|2013}}'', each instance of the trope gets lampshaded.
116	-->'''Jeremy:''' Ha ha. You women and your chocolate.
117	* In the Italian Web Series ''Insopportabilmente Donna'', Creator/TessMasazza often eats incredible amounts of chocolate sweets, especially Nutella.
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120	[[folder:Western Animation]]
121	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sixteen}}'':
122	** Caitlin Cooke is established as being a huge chocolate lover--it's to the point where, after she got a job at a chocolate shop that lets its employees have all the free chocolate they want, she got fat enough to the point where she could've easily been mistaken for being pregnant (she didn't realize that she was getting overweight until after she had trouble trying on a pair of jeans that she had been wanting to buy).
123	** Caitlin's friend, Nikki Wong, is established as ''hating'' chocolate--however, much to Nikki's [[{{Pun}} distaste]], she develops a strong craving for the stuff when she's on her period.
124	* ''WesternAnimation/AngeloRules'': In one episode, Angelo tries to get Elena out of her room to search for something in it. One of Angelo's plans involves baiting Elena with the smell of a chocolate muffin since, according to him, the smell of chocolate is irresistible to girls. However, he soon finds out that chocolate also attracts younger brothers.
125	* Wanda from ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'' has been shown to love chocolate on several occasions. Specifically:
126	** In "Where's Wanda?", Cosmo has been revealed to have hidden Wanda in Chocolate City, Utah. This results in her being put on Level 14 probation.
127	** In "Just Desserts", Timmy keeps reminding Wanda of chocolate. This gets her to approve his "All the food in the world is dessert" wish.
128	** At the beginning of "Fairy Idol", [[JackassGenie Norm the Genie]] bribes Wanda with a hunky chocolate bar as part of his plan to get Cosmo and Wanda to quit being Timmy's fairy godparents.
129	* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has a male example when Peter assumes this will apply to Brian after he's been neutered (even though chocolate is poisonous to animals like dogs and cats), as shown in a cutaway ImagineSpot.
130	-->'''Brian:''' ''[now morbidly obese]'' I ''love'' chocolate! But I can't eat it or I'll get fat! But it's ''so'' good!
131	* Tehama from ''WesternAnimation/{{Fillmore}}'' likes chocolate quite a lot. Ingrid even once bribed her into teaching her how to dust for fingerprints in exchange for chocolate.
132	* According to ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'''s official Facebook page, the female Kaeloo eats a lot of chocolate.
133	* In ''Literature/LittlePrincess'', the Queen, Maid, and Princess love chocolate, but it's more like Everyone Loves Chocolate than Girls Love Chocolate as the King, General, and Chef are seen greatly enjoying it too.
134	* In the ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' short "[[WesternAnimation/PorkysRomance Porky's Romance]]", Petunia at first rejects Porky's overtures of love until she sees the box of chocolates in his hands. So she quickly brings him inside and starts scarfing down the chocolates. Later in a DreamSequence, a now morbidly obese Petunia is seen reclining on the sofa eating chocolates, while HenpeckedHusband Porky does all the chores.
135	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': Lincoln's ten sisters span the full spectrum of girly to tomboyish, but ''all of them'' go crazy for chocolate. It's implied that Clyde's grandmother loves chocolate as well, to the point of saying that you should never trust anyone who doesn't.
136	* In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'', one nibble of chocolate turns Daphne into [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings Gollum]].
137	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': Subverted in "Chocolate With Nuts" when Spongebob and Patrick attempt to sell chocolate to a couple of old ladies.
138	-->'''Shriveled Old Lady''': Chocolate. I remember when they first invented chocolate…sweet sweet chocolate... I always ''HATED'' it.
139	** [[GenderInvertedTrope Gender-Flipped]] with Tom the Fish who spent the entire episode chasing [=SpongeBob=] and Patrick so he could buy all their chocolate.
140	* In ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'', Eclipsa Butterfly admits to having self-control issues when it comes to chocolate. When she was briefly released from stasis by a young Moon, her first request was to be given chocolate from a nearby vending machine. When she's released for real in "Stranger Danger", she eats through a bucket's worth of the stuff.
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143	[[folder:Real Life]]
144	* Women who're menstruating or pregnant often crave chocolate because it's a source of iron and magnesium. And calories, which an active uterus needs to burn a ton of.
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