If romantic comedies are to be believed, love can be sparked by the perfect meet-cute in the most off-beat ways. Travel certainly opens the door to experiences where you can find someone new, and a dating trend in Spain has some people wondering if they should book a flight just to find the one in a grocery store.
The Spanish supermarket chain Mercadona, which has more than 1,600 locations in the country, has seen a massive influx of people arriving between 7 and 8 PM every night and rushing for the pineapples and lentils. People looking for a relationship put a pineapple upside down in their shopping cart, go to the wine section, and faux-serendipitously bump their cart into someone else’s with a pineapple (or wait to get bumped into). Upside-down pineapples have a different connotation signaling people who are open to swinging stateside and elsewhere, but apparently it means dating-app-free love seeking in Spain. For those looking for long-term love, a bag of lentils is the signifier.
