# What am I craving? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [June 10, 2006, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-craving/360234 "2006-06-10T20:31:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![tiny\_ham](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@tiny\_ham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tiny_ham)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2006, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-craving/360234/21 "2006-06-11T01:40:33Z")
[QUOTE=The Sausage Creature] I just fetched some Mexican wedding cookies out of the oven. Would that hit the spot? [/QUOTE] They’d hit mine. Send them over to Chicago, stat. ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2006, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-craving/360234/22 "2006-06-11T02:09:00Z")
A man? How _you_ doing? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Action\_cancelled](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7feea3/32.png) [@Action\_cancelled](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Action_cancelled)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2006, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-craving/360234/23 "2006-06-11T02:38:41Z")
Pica, or allotriophagy, is caused by an iron deficiency. It’s a myth that you crave exactly the thing that will cure it, because the cure is simply an iron supplement or multivitimin with iron. ---
**Author:** ![Nightsong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nightsong/32/3083_2.png) [@Nightsong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nightsong)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2006, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-craving/360234/24 "2006-06-11T02:55:08Z")
A nice slice of toast (just barely browned, so you get that nice crunch while preserving the chewyness of the bread) smeared with a bit of cranberry butter. Or, I do have one of those frozen drink buckets, all nice and ready to go. (Tequila Sunrise: if you want a cranberry cosmo, that’ll have to wait until I find a bottle of vodka and get it mixed up.) Surprisingly good, for a mix. * * * \<\< Do Not Underestimate the Power of the Chocolate Side of the Force! \>\> ---
**Author:** ![NinjaChick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/71c47a/32.png) [@NinjaChick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NinjaChick)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2006, 8:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-craving/360234/25 "2006-06-11T08:39:27Z")
A 7-layer burrito from Taco Bell with a coupla packets of ‘fire’ sauce, and a big ol’ Baja Blast Mountain Dew. ---
**Author:** ![Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bites_when_provoked/32/18073_2.png) [@Bites\_When\_Provoked](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bites_When_Provoked)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2006, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-craving/360234/26 "2006-06-11T10:08:13Z")
An all-expenses-paid holiday to Greenland! (You’re pining for the fjords.) ---
**Author:** ![Ensign\_Edison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7ab992/32.png) [@Ensign\_Edison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ensign_Edison)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2006, 1:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-craving/360234/27 "2006-06-11T13:26:47Z")
Leaving out the quotes this time, because you know who you are. Well, yesterday I tried some beef stew (made myself in the slow cooker), some beer (Red Stripe and Bass, a touch added to the stew of course), some nice chocolate, and a fresh cinnamon raisin bagel. Those Mexican cookies and flavored popcorn sound damn good, but are sadly out of reach. I’ve never eaten at Taco Bell and I don’t suppose I’ll start now (though I did have my first White Castle experience the other day…maybe that’s it, they obviously put crack in the onion rings). As for an iron deficiency, I had that beef and I took a vitamin just in case. I am, as always, pining for the fjords, but this is a natural state and nothing to be alarmed about. Masturbating like a crazed circus monkey has its charms, but for once in my life, I’m pretty sure that’s not what I want, since my work with a partner on the high wire has been most satisfactory. The unidentifying craving, resistant to my efforts, persists into day two… [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-am-i-craving/360234.md?page=1)