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{{quote|'''Elliot Stabler:''' I've got to get home. My pregnant wife has a craving for peanut butter and tacos.
'''Chester Lake:''' Say no more.
|''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]''}}
A [[Pregnancy Tropes|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 ''[[Hilarity Ensues|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 [[Beyond the Impossible|''physically impossible'']] to actually find; (b) isn't actually ''food'' or (c) both.
The "default" craving in fiction for some reason seems to be pickles and ice cream.
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").
A case of [[Truth in Television]]—some women actually ''do'' crave inedible things during pregnancy. 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 "''[[w:Pica (disorder)|pica]]''"; those afflicted with full-blown pica will crave all sorts of bizarre stuff 24/7, regardless of gender.▼
▲A case of [[Truth in Television]]—some women actually ''do'' crave inedible things during pregnancy. 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.
Compare the [[Extreme Omnivore]], someone who ''always'' eats this way (e.g. the aforementioned full-blown pica.)
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== Advertising ==
* Almost any commercial with a pregnant woman as a character that has her giving dialogue and where it isn't for an actual pregnancy product. (Though some of those have it, too.)
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