During pregnancy, women often rummage around in their cabinets, leading to strange finds. Mixing foods which don’t normally go together.
Craving sweet and spicy foods is common during pregnancy, but there are some other things that are very strange.
Vicki Jacob-Ebbinghaus, from Hamburg, Germany, was curious about this — and set out on a mission to try and treat some of the strangest cravings that can happen during pregnancy.
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This project is a a cookbook called “Pickles and Ice Cream”, That includes some of the weird food combinations that Jacob-Ebbinghaus and his co-author Juárez Rodríguez tried in their research.
“It came about because a mutual friend had a really weird craving. She had a craving for toothpaste and Oreos,” Jacob-Ebbinghaus told Fox News Digital in a Zoom interview about the cookbook. (Watch the video at the top of this article.)
Women often have strange cravings during pregnancy — including eating foods that wouldn’t normally be combined. (iStock)
“We started thinking: Is this genius or madness? We thought some non-pregnant women should try it out and see what they think,” Jacob-Ebbinghaus said.
“It started as a photography project. We wanted to organize these meals in a way, like delicious dishes, and then taste them and review them.”
Experts give a few different reasons for cravings in pregnancy. One reason is the changes that occur in the body due to cravings during pregnancy. Nutritional needs of the bodyAccording to the Mother Baby Center website, this problem may be due to some type of deficiency.
“We studied 50,000 pregnancy wishes for this book.”
According to the source, hormonal changes can also cause strange, intense cravings.
He said Jacob-Ebbinghaus and Rodrigues did extensive research to find some bizarre combinations to include in the cookbook.
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He searched the internet strange cravings during pregnancy, She did extensive research on social media and also spoke to people about the weird foods they ate during pregnancy.
“We studied 50,000 pregnancy wishes for this book,” Jacob-Ebbinghaus said.
Sixty Five Recipes Three were finalized, and Jacob-Ebbinghaus and his co-author tried all of them, he told Fox News Digital.
Pregnancy brought on cravings for things that weren’t food, and Jacob-Ebbinghaus found these particularly challenging to try.
“We tried them all,” Jacob-Ebbinghaus said. “We felt it was our duty to try them all. There were some that were not edible and were a little dangerous.”
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“It’s a syndrome called pica, when you crave non-food things, but we felt we should at least taste these things, so we used to chew them and spit them out if they were non-food things,” he said.
“It included things like seat belts, toilet paper, sponges, nail polish and gasoline and rice,” Jacob-Ebbinghaus said. “Some of it was rough. Some of it was really rough.”
The soap — which was grated onto toast — was another weird non-food pregnancy craving that Jacob-Ebbinghaus tried in the research process.
Sometimes cravings for non-food items occur during pregnancy. If this is the case, consult a doctor for guidance. (iStock)
Over a period of three to four months, Jacob-Ebbinghaus and Rodrigues made separate attempts Recipes for your book.
The selected foods he tasted were surprisingly delicious, including the book’s title combination, “pickles and ice cream.”
Other dishes Jacob-Ebbinghaus loved included spring rolls and chocolate sauce, burgers with bacon and Mars bars, beef jerky and Skittles – as well as salami and condensed milk.
Not all of the food combinations tested tasted good.
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“One of them was pickled pigs feet with cornflakes and milk. It was really, really bad, really gross, and it was also really hard to make, because we both lived in Germany at the time, and so we couldn’t buy pickled pigs feet there,” she said.
“We actually had to buy a leg and pickle it ourselves.”
“So, we actually had to buy a leg and pickle it ourselves — (that is) going through the whole process to create that really awesome dish.”
“Lamb’s eyes were also very bad. There was this photo of a vegetarian woman who was walking through a market in Morocco and suddenly had a strange urge when she saw a roasted lamb’s head on display and apparently choked on the eyes and her horrified husband pulled her back. That photo was very, very bad,” Jacob-Ebbinghaus said.
Jacob-Ebbinghaus also tried the hot dog coffee smoothie, which he found extremely repulsive.
The women we spoke to during research for this book had many similarities, such as Strange combinations, including chocolate The co-author explained that this includes chocolate and shrimp, as well as a variety of pickled foods.
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Although many of the recipes presented in “Pickles and Ice Cream” may not suit most people’s tastes, Jacob-Ebbinghaus wishes more people would try some of the strange but surprisingly delicious recipes.
Craving for pickled foods is common among pregnant women. (Jakub Porzycki/NurPhoto via Getty Images)
“The main reaction we get is kind of fascination, and a lot of people when they see this stuff say, ‘Oh, disgusting.’ I was hoping more people would try things like pickles and ice cream, but people weren’t really as eager to do that as we were,” Jacob-Ebbinghaus said.
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“People are so curious about these recipes made by pregnant women, and I love it,” she told Fox News Digital.
“I think there’s a lot of stigma around it… a lot of the women we spoke to felt very embarrassed to say what they were obsessing about during pregnancy, and I think it’s good for other pregnant women to know that they’re definitely not alone when they want weird things.”
