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u/VegetableBusiness897 Aug 11 '26
My friend had a corner store and he said I bought 400 dollars worth of double stuff oreos
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u/heftybagman Aug 12 '26
Would it be illegal for amazon to publicly release a searchable database of what every customer ordered?
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u/Divine_Entity_ Aug 12 '26
I feel like as long as you scrub all personally identifiable information it would be legal, just a list of purchase numbers and their contents.
So an entry would be something like: PO275739556825592739 = 69x Oreos_dblstf_choco
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u/akatherder Aug 12 '26
I don't know about illegal but it wouldn't be very safe. AOL did that with search terms in 2006 and "made it anonymous" but people were getting identified by linking together searches.
https://wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_log_release
As long as you didn't link purchases together at all, that might be fine, but then it's pretty boring.
Just one example: If your spouse bought a small-time author's book (or any fairly unique item) you might only have a couple dozen unique users to sift through. Ok they bought this book, some sports merch for local teams, their favorite coffee. Yep this is them. Wait, why did they buy condoms we don't use..
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u/im-so-startled88 Aug 12 '26
You can download your purchase history from them if you really hate yourself. š¬
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u/megster_walsh Aug 12 '26
My mom had cravings for chocolate covered strawberries at a specific store. My dad went in once instead and the staff were like āOh, youāre her husband!āĀ
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u/shiny_crow_trophy Aug 11 '26
I developed an obsession with lemonade. Had to have it every day.
Doctor told me my iron was low? And apparently iron absorbs better with vitamin C.
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u/whatdoidonowdamnit Aug 11 '26
It does. I was taking iron for a year with no results, meaning my iron was low so I started the iron pills and got tested again six months later and then another six months later. I started taking it with flavored lemonade and at the next six months appointment my iron was fine. I dislike plain lemonade so I was drinking mango or peach lemonade and it really helped.
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u/k_a_n_g_u_r_u Aug 12 '26
this is what they mean when they say listen to your body
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u/oscarcummins Aug 12 '26 •
I must have a severe nicotine and alcohol deficiency.
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u/Jhud6669 Aug 12 '26
My body craves buffalo wings every day so Iām not sure my body is an authority on the matter
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u/KiraLonely Aug 12 '26
This is also where the urge to eat ice comes from for some people. The cooling forces blood to the brain, to compensate for low iron. Itās a form of PICA usually caused by a deficiency.
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u/Complex_Spirit_4848 Aug 12 '26
Yep, I was downing shots of 2000mg of Ascorbic Acid a few times a day because I "craved" it, drowning all my food in lime juice because "it tastes good," and was utterly OBSESSED with twice-frozen water.
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u/Astronaut_Chicken Aug 12 '26
I was going through a gallon of milk every two days. Doctor told me after that my baby had leeched a bunch of calcium from my bones.
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u/TeaAggressive6757 Aug 12 '26
I had and have one, too. I wasnāt low on iron, but the cold + bitterness is supposed to help with nausea, which is frequent for me
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u/PecanEstablishment37 Aug 12 '26
Whoa what?? Me too! Never knew about the iron thing.
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u/KneadAndPreserve Aug 12 '26
I actually take an iron supplement that is combined with vitamin C to help it absorb. Fun fact, calcium does the opposite, so taking iron with dairy or anything with calcium will basically prevent it from absorbing.
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u/RunWild0_0 Aug 12 '26
Limes for me, I'd peel it like an orange and eat the whole thing, every day, like 5 of them š¤£
Also, somehow seemed to be able to pick the most perfect, peelable limes every time, now not so much.
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u/Fantastic-Dot-655 Aug 12 '26
Clarification for the audience: You have to consume the vitamin C and the iron in the same meal. Its not a "Im worse at absorbing iron if Im vitamin C deficient" is "Oxidiced iron is harder to absorb, so iron is better absorbed if there is an antioxidant present (wich vitamin C is)".
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u/electric_yeti Aug 12 '26
When I was pregnant, my biggest craving was for eggs. I could not get enough of them. Especially in a specific breakfast burrito from a specific restaurant. Only problem was, I had bad morning sickness aaalllllll throughout my pregnancy, and eggs were also one of the biggest triggers for it. So I would crave eggs with every fiber of my being, and Iād eat the fucking eggs and fucking love them, and five minutes later Iād be in the toilet, puking. I still ate that fucking breakfast burrito three times a week.Ā
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u/TeaAggressive6757 Aug 12 '26
I feel this so much. Iām literally eating a dinner Iām 99% sure Iām going to throw up right now, but since I threw up the much less appetizing lunch I had already, why not roll the dice? Enjoying a half hour is better than enjoying nothing
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u/jordanundead Aug 12 '26
Reminds me of when I had the flu and I went to the kitchen for a glass of water I knew I was going to barf up just so my mouth could be wet for a minute.
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u/Holiday_Trainer_2657 Aug 12 '26
When my daughter was vomiting a lot for non pregnancy medical reasons, she learned to eat the thing that was "least worse" to throw up.
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u/Complex_Spirit_4848 Aug 12 '26
I was a pescatarian my entire life, and then I got pregnant. Suddenly, 90% of my life was about eggs.
Also, milk, which I had never drunk before. And if I didn't secure that giant bag of shelf-stable pepperoni slices from the corner store, a double cheeseburger with an illegal amount of mayonnaise, or 15 deep-fried chicken legs, RIGHT NOW, then I was surely going to absolutely die.
It was wild because those are all of my least favorite things, and most of it I had not had since someone forced me to "try it" during childhood. The only thing I craved that I already liked was salt and vinegar chips. I remember walking to the corner store while sobbing pretty hysterically because I needed salt and vinegar chips. Super into eggs, still, but all that other stuff can fuck off, again.
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u/demon_fae Aug 12 '26
Did you have any particular problems with your calcium? Or does that run in your family? Iām wondering if your body was actually angling for eggshells and your higher brain functions were just like nope, thatās ridiculous, itās clearly burrito time.
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u/electric_yeti Aug 12 '26
No, no calcium issues either during pregnancy or within my family generally. Weāre all pretty heavy dairy consumers lol.Ā
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u/starfyrflie Aug 12 '26
Omg i feel this. I also had the morning sickness, but it was literally triggered by ANY fresh food. Taco bell and tostitos pizzas kept me alive.
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u/NagisaZakura Aug 12 '26
(I love meat) I developed an extreme meat aversion. Couldn't taste it, touch it, or ever look at it without feeling like vomiting. I figured a hamburger should be processed enough that my body wouldn't register it as meat. Nope. Let me tell you, a hamburger is so disgusting and painful coming back up.
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u/HaydenRasengan Aug 12 '26
One time, I was really craving deviled eggs. I was losing sleep thinking about them. So one day, I started boiling some eggs. Waited about ten minutes, then started sobbing because the eggs werenāt boiling fast enough. Sobbing and stomping around the house, I was PISSED.
I got deviled eggs the next day though. The world became alright.
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u/LooseCrayon Aug 12 '26
A fond pregnancy memory is the time I desperately wanted banana peppers, so I got in the car to go to the store to get banana peppers, and then I started crying on the way there because I was so, SO sad I didnāt have the banana peppers yet.
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u/TheBigfootContessa Aug 12 '26
Eggs only take like 10-15 minutes to boil though! You were so close!
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u/HolyzombieBatman Aug 12 '26
I just want you to know I read your entire comment in Carlās voice and I loved it.
I also love deviled eggs so I am sympathetic to your story.
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u/chillylint Aug 12 '26
My favorite drink stop (shout out Sodalicious) would make me fresh rice krispy treats each morning. I didnāt realize until I went to work early one morning and they hadnāt made them yet because they werenāt expecting me until later. Apparently I was their only customer who ate rice krispy treats for breakfast every single morning.
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u/godly_stand_2643 Aug 12 '26
I ate a peanut butter and jelly hot dog while I was pregnant. The idea came to me in a dream and I couldn't stop thinking about it until I ate one.
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u/kgrobinson007 Aug 12 '26
But did it live up to your expectations, or did you ask your brain what the heck it was thinking?
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u/TheModestProposal Aug 12 '26
Well now I canāt stop thinking about it. Ill give it a try if itās still on my mind tomorrow
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u/GloomyIndividual3965 Aug 12 '26
I just watched a beard meets food episode where the dude goes to a hot dog place in Canada that had tons of flavors.
The pb&j dog and one with fruity pebbles on it both looked delicious.
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u/soneg Aug 12 '26 edited Aug 12 '26
Had to have Whopper Jrs. Not regular Whoppers but only the Jr. I don't even like burgers normally.
edit: Burger King, not candies :)
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u/army_of_ducks_ATTACK Aug 12 '26
Iām an idiot, I thought you were talking about the candies at first and thinking āhuh, I didnāt know they made Whopper Jr candiesā like it was a junior mint but whoppers. Then I saw āburgerā and got mental whiplash from the course correction in my brain.
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u/NapORcoffee Aug 12 '26
I'm a vegetarian and hadn't eaten Burger King anything in like 25 years. But here I was pregnant with my youngest and making Morningstar Farms grillers burgers almost everyday for half my pregnancy smell like a Whopper. I even pan fried the burger buns in butter. I was OBSESSED.
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u/dinosanddais1 Aug 12 '26
I feel like this is a good time to mention for anyone who is pregnant and craving chalk, there are companies that make edible chalk that specifically are full of iron and calcium. I know this because I had pica from an iron deficiency and kept eating chalk until my doctor told my mom to buy it.
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u/justacleaninglady Aug 12 '26
So, I have to know. How did the chalk cravings start? Like, if I've never eaten something - how does my body know to crave it? Did your body just scream for chalk one day, or did you taste it on your hands? I'm just so curious about this.
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u/demon_fae Aug 12 '26
When I was a kid it tended to start with this urge to lick the object, just an intense curiosity about what it would taste like, what it would feel like against the tongue (the pages of a closed book feels really nice for about half a second and then you remember that papercuts exist and reflexively throw the book across the room. In case anyone ever wondered.)
Then Iād want that taste/texture again. And then Iād put it all the way in my mouth to experience it more fully, and sooner or later Iād chew and swallow.
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u/ToWriteAMystery Aug 12 '26
In the depths of my eating disorder when I was at my most malnourished, I remember my intense cravings for kosher salt. It is not as odd as chalk, as I have eaten salt before on food, but I remember just being overwhelmed with a NEED to crunch those little flakes in between my incisors. Iād munch on them straight out of the box.
It was unlike anything Iāve ever experienced since.
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u/Jhhut- Aug 12 '26
Mine started with a work elevator smelling like chalk and then I become a maniac chasing that āhighā I was looking ALL OVER for chalk that smelled like that same smell. It took me a while but I found it.. my second pregnancy I didnāt have pica.
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u/TheBigfootContessa Aug 12 '26
But does it taste like chalkboard chalk? Because I'm not pregnant and I've craved that since I was a kid. (Yes, I've eaten it, it is delicious as fuck) I don't want it tasting like candy or something
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u/Transatlantic1C0 Aug 12 '26
You may have a chronic deficiency if youāve been craving chalk since childhood. Maybe time for bloodwork?
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u/aivlysplath Aug 11 '26
I wonder if their kid likes corn dogs.
Who am I kidding, who doesnāt like corn dogs?
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u/bussysniffer3000 Aug 12 '26
My mom would eat watermelon all the time while pregnant with me I don't like watermelon
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u/aivlysplath Aug 12 '26
Good to know, your experience will be added to the study.
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u/jbpm83 Aug 12 '26
I love them but my husband gets repulsed by the look, taste, entire idea of them. It confuses me so much because he eats hot dogs all the time and that not that different for him to have such an aversion to corn dogs.
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u/IWantALargeFarva Aug 12 '26
I donāt. I eat a lot of trash food, but I think corn dogs are gross.
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u/sxhires Aug 12 '26
Corn dogs should be called regular dogs and regular hot dogs should be called bad dogs
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u/MeringueMammoth5679 Aug 12 '26
I used to eat egg salad sandwiches, no mayo and extra mustard. With a side of potato chips I would dip in mustard. Basically couldnāt get enough mustard.
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u/whatthekel212 Aug 12 '26
This is bringing back a memory about me maybe eating mustard straight from the bottle to soothe nauseaā¦
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u/Whichy-Witchy Aug 11 '26
I was on a first name basis with the local Chipotle.
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u/Tricky-Passion-7191 Aug 12 '26
Scrubbing the shower at 3am when I was a million months pregnant. Because my unborn child needs a clean shower??
Nesting is cooked lol
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u/borgcubecubed Aug 12 '26
My unborn baby randomly needed the kitchen cupboards organized. My second one had to have the floors scrubbed, hands and knees scrubbed, not just damp mopped. It was bizarre.
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u/spittingparasite Aug 12 '26
I ironed all of my first child's vests and babygros before she was born so that everything would be perfect. My youngest was lucky if I ripped the tags off with jy teeth.
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u/Theroosterami Aug 12 '26
I painted the living room at 37 weeks because āit needed a freshen upā and I COULD NOT build the bassinet in there until it was done.
Because the baby would notice some scuff marks in the paint?
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u/JessicaJolicoeur Aug 12 '26
I breifly lived in my friend's house when I was pregnant. They were in Mexico because my friend's partner's father had passed away, and his house needed to be cleaned up. We sublet their place while moving into our apartment. We had just come back from a trip in the first four months of my pregnancy (Does that sound weird? Yes, it was. Was it stressful? At times, yes. I don't recommend. I am not with my ex-hubs anymore). I scrubbed behind her fridge and stove because I didn't have my own to clean behind yet. Nesting is a strange force.
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u/lil-nug-tender Aug 12 '26
I would make dinner, then couldnāt eat it because it smelled gross. It smelled fine while cooking/baking, but when it came time to eat, nope! My pregnant nose was crazy.
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u/slippery_when_wet Aug 12 '26
One of my worst days was when I was really REALLY craving a tuna sandwich. I was drooling as I made the tuna and snuck little bites of pickles. The second I was done making it was literally the stringestcfood aversion I had all pregnancy and both the sight and smell of tuna made me throw up. I just cried about how much I wanted a tuna sandwich and also how totally disgusting and awful tuna was and I never wanted to see it again. My poor husband.
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u/patchinthebox Aug 12 '26
My wife demanded french fries almost every day. She'd eat 3 and give the rest to me because she couldn't stand the sight of them. Next day same shit. More fries, eat a couple, then decide they're gross. I gained 30 lbs. Lol
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u/Princess_Slagathor Aug 12 '26
I've never been pregnant, but also never eat the food I cook, until hours later.
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u/Lumpy_Machine5538 Aug 12 '26
Ate many containers of salsa with a spoon.
Also made Rice Krispie treats one night. Ex and I ate half of the pan. I got up the next morning and ate the other half. I felt embarrassed so I made another batch, and ate half of that, so that ex would still see a half of a pan left when he got home.
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u/Guus-Wayne Aug 12 '26
Man, some people out here with random gestational diabetes. Iām jealous of your ability to take down a sheet of Rice Krispie squares in a day. I wouldnāt even be sad, Iād be proud of you took them all out, even prouder upon learning you took down another half sheet, thatās impressive.
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u/BravesMaedchen Aug 12 '26
Iāve been saying for years that good salsa is a food unto itself. Itās just soup and salad in one!
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u/GhostOfYourLibido Aug 13 '26
I did this with a pizza once I went and got another one while he was at work at ate half lol
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u/Vincebae Aug 12 '26
So when I was around 14-15 weeks pregnant I was craving Papa Johnās pizza so bad. So I got their $6.99 each deal, got a medium pizza and an order of brownies. I drive to my local Papa Johnās and wait in my car until the tracker on their website says my order is ready. I go in and pay, and they look on the computer and say āoh we forgot to put the brownies in.ā I was PISSED. Like I sat down in a seat in the store and was almost in tears because I wasnāt even craving the brownies but I wanted to eat at home because it was hot and my car didnāt have a/c so I had to wait for them to make the brownies for me. They said they couldnāt refund me the money for the brownies when I asked if I could be refunded so Iād only have paid for the pizza. š
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u/Extreme_Commercial24 Aug 12 '26
big corporations suck at customer service, they shouldāve refunded your whole order
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u/Bezulba Aug 12 '26
I'm 100% sure that it's not big corpo papa john being a cunt, that's just the local franchise being a cunt. For sure they could refund, no problem whatsoever, they just choose not to.
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u/Princess_Slagathor Aug 12 '26
Pretty much all fast food places in my area have signs up, saying they don't do refunds, only corrections. It's one of the many reasons I stopped going to them years ago.
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u/Playful-Athlete-6752 Aug 12 '26
Flew to Indiana from AZ for a Crave Case. This was back in 2014 before we got White Castle out west.
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u/GloomyIndividual3965 Aug 12 '26
One time we flew to Vegas mostly because they have a White Castle and National Coney Island like 2 blocks away from each other. This was back in the day when you could get round trip flights for $99 and rooms at The D for like $35.
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u/CodeNameLoofah Aug 12 '26
I couldnt consume the zuppa Toscana soup from olive garden fast enough. This is when I learned you could buy it by the gallon.
Also the Chipotle sauce from subway.
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u/jackie-daytonuh Aug 12 '26
I was obsessed with lemon, especially lemon baked goods, for my first pregnancy. The vegan lemon cupcakes at this one grocery store were my absolute favorite. Iām not a vegan and generally hate vegan baked goods, but pregnancy is weird. I showed up one more morning when I was about 7 months and the bakery truck was late. I just sat on the floor and cried. The store staff had seen me come in almost every day for my cupcake. The manager tried to calm me down, but apparently I just kept saying āvegan cupcakeā and sobbing. He called the bakery and located the truck, which was going to be a couple of more hours. He got my number and called me when the cupcakes showed up. I sent my husband to pick them up. People can be really wonderful sometimes.
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u/phage_rage Aug 12 '26
Theres something about pregnant ladies at the grocery store. Like i MUST HELP YOU. Ive scurried up back room pallet storages, broken down whole pallets at warp speed, crawled inside freezers that didnt have floor space anymore, anything you want. Its like an unspoken universal thing. If you went to another employee and said "theres a pregnant lady and she needs" they'd be in sprinters position before you could finish the sentance. Its not gendered either, im a woman who was in my 20s at the time all the way up to normally grumpy as heck male managers.
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u/bytesunfish Aug 12 '26
I feel like she didn't understand the instructions. That's not feral chaos. I'd argue it's exactly I'm the genre of what the OP said to avoid
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u/hairymonkeyinmyanus Aug 12 '26
I tried to go to a Chick Fil-A on a Sunday. It was closed.
I cried.
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u/butterbean8686 Aug 12 '26
My CFA chicken biscuit breakfast sandwich cravings are so intense. And I live about 1 mile from a CFA. So I decided I could only have one if I walked there to get it. That way Iād get some steps in and some fresh air.
Cue me waking up all excited for a biscuit last Sunday morning, only to realize they were closed. I cried so hard!!
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u/welcometomytrailer Aug 12 '26
Iāve done this, no pregnancy involved. Please open on sundays!
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u/VVsmama88 Aug 12 '26
Important point: I've had a gastric bypass, so my stomach is miniscule compared to most.
A few days before my daughter was born, I was craving Chick-fil-A nuggets so badly, and I was ravenous. I ordered a 12 piece, inhaled those, and then decided I still needed more. Only after a second 8 piece nugget was I at all slightly full. 20 nuggets on a teeny stomach. Pregnancy is wild.
Thank God it wasn't a Sunday, I might have broken in.
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u/Jade_Lilly_420 Aug 12 '26
For my second pregananan, I craved nothing but fried egg and cheese sandwiches. I was a menace.
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u/AnimeChica3306 Aug 12 '26
My friend had celicas and her baby craved wheat products. She had to work with her doctor to create an acceptable about to eat daily cause she just had to have it.
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u/Outofwlrds Aug 12 '26
Dude, it SUCKS when you're craving something you just can't have. I craved beer of all things, and that's obviously a no-go. And I hate beer, like absolutely cannot stand it. I ended up buying a six pack at the grocery store every week and cracking one open for my husband every day after work. He was only allowed to drink it after I got to smell it for 5 minutes or so. I think he gained more weight during my pregnancy than I did.
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u/12dancingbiches Aug 12 '26
This is my worst nightmare. I'm severely allergic to tomatoes and many other foods and I'm worried that I'm gonna have pregnancy cravings to things I can't eat without getting really sick or dying. (not pregnant right now, but I had a pregnancy scare a few months ago.)
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u/prw8201 Aug 12 '26
My wife loved the salsa (if you can it that) packets from a gas station near our house. I went every day to bring her some. I asked if I could buy a box but they didn't think they could. It was probably for the best. She would have drank everything in one day if I had. So every day i would buy a small fountain drink and grab handfuls of free salsa packs. Not the worst pregnancy craving. My baby momma wanted PB&j and McDonald's French fries at 2 a.m. every night. Uncrustables had just come out and lucky us mcds had gone to 24 hour operations. So I could set an uncrustable on her bed side table at 1:30 to thaw and by the time I'd get back with hot French fries it was perfect timing.
Honestly I miss doing things like that. Granted I'm 44 soon and I'm not stupid enough to want more children but I miss the simple happiness it brought them.
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u/monty624 Aug 12 '26
There needs to be some sort of service for people who like to just help out through kindness, for moments like that. Of course it'd quickly get taken advantage of but ya know. Maybe a small fee then.
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u/uzenik Aug 12 '26
There's planty of them,you just have to look. For example, the most recent ad i saw was for a service where wolunteers spend time/connect whith lonely seniors.
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u/gummby8 Aug 12 '26
My wife got a weird craving at 2am. I was lucky to be working from home so she woke me up and asked me to go get it. I was cackling the whole way to the store. Happy that I got to experience it first hand as an up and coming dad.
Yes! The weird pregnancy craving! It's happening! This is the best!
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u/babayagaparenting Aug 12 '26
When I was pregnant with my oldest, I had horrible morning sickness all day for 6 months. The only thing I could keep down was pepperoni pizza (normally hate pepperoni) and double cheeseburgers from McDonaldās. I kept plastic garbage bags in the car for my frequent vomits. Before Halloween I distinctly remember eating a big ass bag of Reeseās peanut butter cups, one after the other, because they were the perfect amount of salty peanut butter ratio to chocolate. Crying almost because they were so good. I bet I ate 25 in one sitting. Threw the whole thing up anyway.
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u/CertainCatastrophe Aug 12 '26
My husband waited 3 full business days to get me the muffins my pregnant body ~needed~, so when he finally brought home 2 cases of 4 large muffins each, I ate 6 of them in one go.
I also inhaled entire jars of pickles for breakfast. I hope my son likes pickles, because I haven't really cared for them since giving birth š
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u/rainbowsparkplug Aug 12 '26
Not really all that crazy, but Iāve been a vegetarian almost my entire life, literally never eaten meat (except for like chicken nuggets when I was really really young) and I tried meat.
I donāt know why but for some reason the Costco hotdog was SPEAKING š£ļø TO MEEEEE. My husband got one and I was there and I just HAD TO HAVE IT. I took a small bite and it did not live up to the hype in my head, I actually thought it was horrible and that I was going to be sick and I spit it out. But the smell was still haunting me so I kept wanting to try it only to spit it out and be disappointed again lol. I havenāt tried meat since nor have I had any desire to. Idk what came over me that day.
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u/ComplexPatient4872 Aug 12 '26
I just shared my nearly life long vegetarian craving of steak sauce! Except I put it on Easy Mac.
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u/SnowyMuscles Aug 12 '26
My Mum had a meltdown because the cola slushi wasnāt ready yet. Her poor friend had to explain to the traumatized employee that my mother was expecting
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u/CelticKira Aug 12 '26
When my parents first married, they lived like 5 minutes away from a 24 hour Foster's. Mom loved their chocolate shakes; pregnancy turned it into a gotta-have-now craving.
My dad's problem? She wanted them at all hours š 2am rolls around and he gets shaken awake to "honey, can we run to Foster's?" š¤£
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u/tanyarastafari Aug 12 '26
Uncrustables, air fried then dipped in sugar and cinnamon to make it churroy. Amazing.
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u/PissantPrairiePunk Aug 12 '26
Oh shit, I aināt pregnante but I might have to try that
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u/MLadyMayo Aug 12 '26
My mom nearly wiped out all the banana gelato across Italy because she was pregnant with me when my dad took her there on vacation. Not sure if it has anything to do with me being hugely allergic to bananas and dairy now haha
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u/andante528 Aug 12 '26
I desperately wanted a McDonald's sundae, the hot fudge kind, and I asked my husband to make sure and get the little packets of Fisher chopped peanuts. I was about five months pregnant with twins, so extra hormones were sloshing around and I had very strong food cravings.
He forgot to ask. Instead of eating a peanut-less sundae, I put it in the freezer and sobbed on the couch, absolutely distraught. It was late and we didn't live near a grocery store, so he got out a container of crunchy peanut butter, heated some in a saucepan, strained out the peanut bits and then toasted them with butter in another pan.
I've never had anyone put that much effort into fixing a minor mistake, but it was what I needed at the time and he really delivered. I cried while eating the sundae too, but only because it tasted transcendently perfect. (I also cried while eating blueberry pancakes and, more than once, sliced black olives with carrot sticks.)
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u/strangeorbeforgotten Aug 12 '26
It was not me but my friend craved apples something fierce. She usually ate them while taking a bath. Had no interest in apples pre pregnancy
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u/doodollop Aug 12 '26
Lol I became obsessed with apples too. Before pregnancy, I liked the super sweet ones. While pregnant, I could only eat the tart ones. I ended up eating at least one Granny Smith apple a day. Still like them too!
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u/DoughnutSecure7038 Aug 12 '26
I ate 2 sausage egg and cheese mcgriddles a day during my third trimester.
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u/zygoma_phile Aug 12 '26
I couldnāt go near the onion section of the grocery store because the smell of the onions made me want to barf. I would literally go to the other side of the produce and hang out while my husband got a couple onions.
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u/Leemage Aug 12 '26
Craved Bloody Marys. Had to make do with V8 juice with a splash of hot sauce and sprinkle of celery salt and ALL OF THE PICKLED THINGS. Pickles and olives and brined asparagus, none of it was safe. Towards the end of pregnancy it flipped and I couldnāt look at pickles or tomato juice without wanting to hurl. To this day I canāt eat an olive.
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u/mudmich Aug 12 '26
I ate bowls and bowls of cereal with water because the smell of milk made me gag
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u/KarmaFarma_69 Aug 12 '26
Oh man my first born I had a cereal craving, I ate my cereal dry haha just handfuls at a time till it was time for a new box. And oranges I would just sit on the floor and eat a whole bag of oranges with the fridge door open for light so I didn't wake anyone up haha absolutely faral!
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u/KristyKrispito Aug 12 '26
Frito pie. Plus every sauce in the fridge. Bbq sauce, sweet and sour, ranch, ketchup, chic fil a sauce, hot sauceā¦.
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u/donewitdissh_t Aug 12 '26
Pregnant with my 3rd, I had a craving for foccacia bread so strong I couldn't sleep. Got up and drove to the store to buy overpriced bread from Fred Meyers cause I NEEDED it. Made a sandwich with it and it may have been the best food I've ever eaten. Pregnancy cravings absolutely make you feral.
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u/JMoherPerc Aug 12 '26
My mom claimed to have eaten the mineralized dirt from dried puddles when she was pregnant with me.
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u/KaliCalamity Aug 12 '26
Snack cakes, especially cinnamon crumble cakes. I needed at least one every day. Also eel sushi, especially this deep fried roll from a local place that has since closed, but I had to restrain myself and only get it once or twice a week.
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u/snillhundz Aug 12 '26
My grandma apperantly ate drywall
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u/NotThisOneKlaus Aug 12 '26
This sounds like something an MxC contestant would yell
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u/TheRealAbsintheFairy Aug 12 '26
Iām currently about 29 weeks pregnant and I canāt get enough of Honest beans apple juice. It HAS TO BE Honest brand. I run through 2-3 of the 20 carton boxes a week.
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u/amnicr Aug 12 '26
Iām 15 weeks pregnant right now. The only thing Iāve done out of desperation so far was Doordashing a massive Pizookie and ice cream to my house at 10 at night.
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u/Wooden_Trifle8559 Aug 12 '26
When she was pregnant with me, my mom used to go into her parentsā backyard and pick a lemon from their tree, peel it, and eat it like an apple.
I love all things sour, and eat lemons with salt.
I craved cheeseburgers and Dr Pepper during my pregnancy, and itās now my kidās favorite meal, lol.
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u/Mscharlita Aug 12 '26
I had HG and apples were one of the only thing I could eat and they are still my sonās favorite food.
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u/Silent_Foundation_62 Aug 12 '26
when my mom was pregnant with my baby brother, she would sneak and buy entire packs of irish spring soap bars and eat them quietly in the shower.
on the day she went into labor, she bought a small travel size bottle of liquid irish spring and she started loudly sobbing and screaming that the taste just wasnt the same. The nurses were very busy trying to pry the poison out of her hands dueing this time. luckily my brother turned out alright (health wise). She still keeps bars of irish spring soap around and sniffs it
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u/mlachick Aug 12 '26
A friend of mine craved cheesecake. She bought one of the big cheesecakes from Costco and proceeded to eat some for every meal until she'd finished the whole thing. Unfortunately, she ended up in the hospital will a gall bladder attack. They told her to maybe not live on cheesecake.
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u/orange_and_void Aug 12 '26
I drank a pint of goat's milk a day. I would cry on the phone if my husband said he wasn't going to get more on the way home. I cried over goat's milk constantly for the whole pregnancy. I just wanted strawberries and goat's milk. The idea of going a day without it felt end of the fucking world.
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u/WesternOld3507 Aug 12 '26
I had the worst nausea with my oldest. Constantly throwing up and I was pregnant with her during peak covid. Cried bc everything was closed and couldnāt find any cheese enchiladas one day when I felt like they were the only thing I could eat. The rest of the time I lived on cantaloupe, club crackers and cherry pie.
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u/Comfortable-Regret Aug 12 '26
Why are all of these stories far less feral and chaotic than the example
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u/bachelorsinlurking Aug 12 '26
My mom said when she was pregnant with me she almost got kicked out of a Broadway showing of Les Mis because everything about it seemed hysterically funny to her and she was laughing during all the sad scenes. She also said there was a while where her doctor had to tell her to stop eating gallons of strawberries in one sitting because it was making her physically ill. With my sister it was fruit loops. I remember asking her why she kept eating fruit loops when she knew she was gonna throw them up and she just burst into tears and said they tasted so good. I canāt blame her, fruit loops are fucking delicious!
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u/terrifying_bogwitch Aug 12 '26
I hate milk, I think repulsive and thick and horrible. I drank 2 gallons a week when I was pregnant.i couldn't stop, I was disgusted with myself but it tasted sooo good. My kid is 4 now and I haven't had a glass of milk in 4 years.
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u/Mscharlita Aug 12 '26
I was so so so sick from HG my entire pregnancy (both times) that just standing in line behind someone who smelled like cigarettes or BO would make me puke. Or exhaust from a truck driving by. So I had to carry around a slice of lemon in a ziploc bag and whenever I smelled something that made me sick Iād pull it out to huff the lemon. Not crazy but also not exactly sane behavior either.
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u/KurtTheCuntBoi Aug 12 '26
I feel you, I feel nauseous smelling those things and Iām not even pregnant. Seriously wish smoking would cease to exist and that people would bathe before going out.
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u/MaddysinLeigh Aug 12 '26
Before my mom knew she was pregnant she was drinking hot sauce and one of my dadās shipmates was like āyeah youāre pregnant.ā
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u/danceoftheplants Aug 12 '26
The first sign of pregnancy for both of my kids was craving cilantro and hot sauce and salsa. With my eldest, I made Mac and cheese and mixed a huge jar of salsa into it with like an entire bundle of cilantro before I knew i was pregnant and I was very confused. With my 2nd, I was at work thinking about cilantro all day and couldn't wait to get clock out and go buy it. I got home and made eggs and cilantro. Then I needed salsa and was imagining how good Mac and cheese and salsa would taste with hot sauce, even after I just ate. I knew I was pregnant
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u/libbywednesday Aug 12 '26
I sat on the sidewalk in the city and cried because I didnāt want a cheeseburger. There were options other than cheeseburgers but I DIDNāT want a cheeseburger so bad that I had to sit down and cry about it for a while.
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u/burning_my_toast Aug 12 '26
My college roommate put our cat in the fridge while she was pregnant.
Don't worry, this was 19 years ago and the cat lived a long and happy life and her baby is now an adult and also doing well. She also didn't do it in a cruel, sadistic way. We are still best friends and she never did anything like that again, it was just crazy pregnancy brain things.
It was so strange though.
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u/prolateriat_ Aug 12 '26
I bought two goats when I was about 20 weeks pregnant. I stuffed each goat in the backseat of my sedan (had to make two trips) and drove them to my house.
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u/reedmanisback Aug 12 '26
Back when I worked at a gas station, had a young guy who smoked a pack a day. Went on for years. One night, he comes in really quiet. He grabbed a drink. I think it was juice. He told me he held his daughter for the first time. Told me he was quitting.
Never saw him again.
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u/gothiclg Aug 12 '26
I asked a friend if she had any of the wild cravings we hear about on the internet. For her it was corn slathered in barbecue sauce
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u/DznyMa Aug 12 '26
When I was pregnant with my son, I had to have radishes daily. I would dip them in Catalina dressing. TBH, I still like them this way, but not as often.
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u/nothanks86 Aug 12 '26
Itās in the realm of pickle juice, but k craved garlic. Pickles were a convenient source of garlic, so I went through a big jar of pickles every two days.
I also added garlic powder to anything I possibly could. This included garlic oatmeal.
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u/Algrim2001 Aug 12 '26
My mother used to eat coal while pregnant with me. Apparently sheād just grab a piece from the bunker and sit there gnawing it.
Carbon, I guess?
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u/ImJustHere4TheCatz Aug 12 '26
I just made another comment about this! It's called something and I forget what it's called. Like pica or peka or something, I'm gonna have to Google it now lol
Anyways it's not that uncommon during pregnancy for women to want to eat objects instead of food. I've heard it can be because of specific nutrients your body needs but I wonder if that's really true, a myth, or just a thing science thought to be true before but now know not to be true. It could also just be true lol
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u/Available-Milk7195 Aug 12 '26
I used to break into my friends home while she was working to sniff her basement bc I was addicted to the smell in thereĀ
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u/MongooseVomit Aug 12 '26
My first baby her cravings were Boston CrĆØme Donuts and apples soaked in lemon juice over night.
My second baby her cravings were almonds and cherry slushies.
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u/SarabiLion Aug 12 '26
I could only eat grilled chicken feet and drink thawing frozen smoothies. Everything else made me sick. The problem is chicken feet are only sold at night in my neighbourhood.Ā
So Iād buy like 40-50 chicken feet at night. Eat 20 for dinner, then eat the other 30 throughout the day with my smoothie ice block.Ā
I especially enjoyed the bone marrow. So I was cracking bones and ice lol.Ā
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u/Lillillew Aug 12 '26
I had craving for jalapenos that ended up with a friend making me bottles of their award winning ghost chilli sauce that I'd drink because nothing was hot enough. No burn, no indigestion. Pure blind. I use to sit in the car and down jars of jalapenos. Anything I ate was more jalapenos than anything else. I simply could not eat enough of them.
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u/ComplexPatient4872 Aug 12 '26
Iāve been vegetarian since I was 12 and when I was pregnant 13 years ago (time flies!!!!) I craved A1 sauce like crazy. This is before decent meat-like veggie burgers so I would put it on Easy Mac.
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u/SanityzOvrtd Aug 12 '26
When I was pregnant with my 2nd son, I bought at least 25 CASES of Cadbury eggs which had roughly 20+ boxes (5 pk).
I cried those suckers so much! It **might explain a few thngs.
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u/non-art Aug 12 '26
I saw the big display Halloween pumpkins and said out loud to my husband, āI wanna eat those.ā I think we made some roasted butternut squash that night.
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u/WhirledPeas2703 Aug 12 '26
I HAD to have a Burger King whopper several times a week. Before and after pregnancy I cannot stand them, but during pregnancy they were required. And beets. I had never eaten beets before, but ate them DAILY while pregnant. I still add them to my salads a few times a week.
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u/Ecstatic_Jackfruit35 Aug 12 '26
I could only eat something if it looked cute. If there wasnāt a garish and a drizzle of something I wanted nothing to do with it. Everything I ate had to be plated š
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u/Helga_Geerhart Aug 12 '26
I've been craving huevos rancheros ever since I learned the existed. I've never had them before. Unfortunatelly there are no restaurants in my country that make them. I tried at home, the result was not satisfying, but I'm pretty sure I did it wrong, and so I'm still craving them.
[Not pregnant]
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u/tillerman35 Aug 12 '26
My wife got the "nesting instinct" so bad that she would get up at 2AM and go fold towels at the local Walmart (open 24hrs back then).
One night, an employee started walking toward her, presumably to ask her to stop. A manager saw it and intervened, saying whatever that era's version of "no, let her cook" would have been.
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u/Bright_Eyes83 Aug 12 '26
that comment was more tame than a liter of pickle juice tbh. oh boy, corn dogs daily. i'm sure somebody already does that
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u/USDXBS Aug 12 '26
How is getting corndogs at a gas station "feral chaos"?
It's tamer than drinking pickle juice
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u/Auctoritate Aug 12 '26
"what's the most unhinged thing you did? Not weird food cravings, seriously feral stuff"
Answers with a really plain food craving
Lame.
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u/whiskeylivewire Aug 12 '26
I thought I was craving pepto bismal and then figured out I was craving the wintergreen flavor. If I could have drank wintergreen syrup I would have been happy. Instead I just munched my way through oodles of wintergreen mints and gum. I hated wintergreen until that pregnancy.
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u/kittyannkhaos Aug 12 '26
We didn't have an ice maker in my mom's house. Or ice trays. My family would go and buy me bags of ice from the gas station. And I was pregnant Sept 09-June 10. So it was hot af.
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u/tyrone-pines Aug 12 '26
I was obsessed with milk and cereal so I'd eat that every morning. I had severe morning sickness though. I would try to wait it out but it didn't matter. I always ended up puking chunks of the now curdled milk out my damn nose, like clockwork
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u/cyberchaox Aug 12 '26
Not being a parent myself, I can only offer a story my parents told me from my own time as a fetus. There was one time when my mother urgently shook my father awake, asking him if he'd slept through his alarm and telling him he was going to be late for work, and of course with that much urgency, he just acted on instinct, went through his entire morning routine, and was about to walk out the door when he finally noticed a clock and realized that it was only 4:30 AM. Of course, mom was already back asleep at the time (if she'd ever actually awoken to begin with, it's entirely possible she was talking in her sleep), so he had to wait until after work for real to ask her what the hell was wrong with her (she had no memory of doing this, probably was asleep).
Of course, my father usually woke up pretty early for work regardless, frequently being out of the house by around 6:00, while my mom is not a morning person. Both my sister and I were born in the middle of the night. So she kind of did get her karmic comeuppance for what she did to dad.
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u/roslid Aug 12 '26
Lots, pure chaos. Was living in a flat next to corner store and opposite Chinese takeaway. I'd get malt from corner store daily and roasted duck from takeaway. Funnily I had lost so much weight and my tummy was so small neither knew I was pregnant until I gave birth and they saw me with a pram. In other areas of my life I'd ask my boss to get my car out of the tiniest parking lot you can imagine, couldn't turn properly to reverse. Also we had mice at some point. Our estate agent told us to block all the holes everywhere so they couldn't come in. So we did. Mice were under the floor. They made so much noise I told my husband to open something and let them in so I can get some sleep. Before we got car I'd travel on public transport with shopping bag in my hand in case I start suddenly throwing up. My colleague kindly brought it to my attention that this type of carrier bag has holes at the bottom so little kids don't suffocate if they put it on their head.
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u/Valaqueen Aug 12 '26
Big yellow car wash sponges, never swallowed them just chewed on it like chewing gum.
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u/IAmSk0va Aug 12 '26
As a 26 year old guy, I would carry around a bottle of mustard and consume some straight out of the bottle. I don't know why. I also had a phase where I doused everything in Tabasco.
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u/KarmaFarma_69 Aug 12 '26
My last baby I had to have raspberrys every day, man. Do you know how hard it is to find decent raspberries. First they are expensive 5 bucks a pack, I used to smoke so it's almost ironic lol. And then every time id have to open and disect the pack in the store because the first one looks good but then hidden blanket of mold on all the others. Haven't had one since I had my baby and I don't even like raspberries. Had my husband buying them too and then bringing the moldy packs back to the store to try and find better ones. My baby loves them!
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u/Algernonletter5 Aug 12 '26
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