fling a craving
v. phr.— «All this talk about hot food flung a craving on me, so I *had* to go out for Thai food at lunch today.» —“Re: Hackers and spicy food” by Mike Van Pelt Usenet: alt.hackers Feb. 7, 1992. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
“Cornbread,” a poem by Kentucky writer Silas House, is thick with sensory memories of Appalachian cooking and family: scooping cornmeal by hand and “the splash of egg, the gallop of buttermilk.” The poet recalls his mother cooking after work, the...
Kelly from Butte, Montana, recalls that when a few morsels remained at the end of a meal, her grandmother would say, Make it a nice day tomorrow, meaning everyone should eat all their food. A version used by a childhood friend’s family was...