Way over in Studio City, California sits a small pizza place with an interesting claim to fame. Story has it that in the 1990’s a group of  pregnant women more than ready to give birth decided to eat there after a birthing class. When all of them went into labor soon after eating the same salad, stories and rumors flourished, making the restaurant the go-to eatery for overdue moms.

The restaurant claims all these years later, the trend is still going strong, with at least a few and sometimes entire tables full of pregnant women frequenting the restaurant daily. Included with their meal? A journal for the woman to write down any thoughts she has and later include a photo of her new baby.

Nowadays the labor-inducing meal is referred simply as “The Salad,” and women have come hundreds of miles to eat it. (Not so shocking to any woman whose baby is long overdue and who has run out of ways to try to get her out.) Made with watercress, romaine, gorgonzola, walnuts, and balsamic dressing, supposedly the most important ingredient, the salad sells like no other.

So is it just urban legend? Maybe, although the journal is apparently overflowing with success stories. Plus a number of guides with “at-home” remedies for inducing labor include using balsamic vinegar. Yet either way, the story at least gives that restaurant an interesting legacy – not to mention hope for those miserable moms who have passed 40 weeks and just can’t wait another day.

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