Lettuce meet again: Singles shop for love by adding these secret-coded foods to their grocery carts
NY Post
Gen Z’s quest for the perfect meet-cute has led them to the most banal setting of all: the grocery store.
Singles in Spain are lining up at Mercadona stores, a popular chain of supermarkets, to pick up a few items in hopes of cooking up some organic romance.
Fed up with the tireless online dating scene, young adults looking for love are increasingly are taking their search for love at first sight off the apps and out onto the streets — just like in the movies.
“That doesn’t happen on apps,” Lidia Izquierdo, 19, told the New York Times last week. The student from Barcelona has recently visited her neighborhood Mercadona three times to increase her chances of running into her soulmate after seeing the speed-shopping dating approach go viral on TikTok.
They’re not leaving it all up to chance. Perhaps borrowing from swinger culture, the pineapple has been pegged as the appropriate signal to other singles that you’re there not just for groceries, but also to mingle.
Those ready to make their approach are advised to playfully bump carts with the shopper they’ve set their eyes on.
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