Spain is experiencing a new romantic boom due to the innovative way of dating, which is gaining popularity among lonely people. The trend, known as the Fruit Code, is actively developing through TikTok's commercials, which attracted attention to a non -standard approach to the search for partners.
The famous comedy actress Vivi Lin made a funny video that said that Mercadona supermarkets have a certain "time for flirting".
From 19:00 to 8:00 pm with a trolley in your hands you can find a romantic partner.
It is enough to put an inverted pineapple in a shopping cart - it is a secret signal for the opposite sex that you are ready for romantic communication.
The video collected millions of views, and the trend has taken up many celebrities.
On the fan page of Lyktok there is an image of a pineapple with a signature: "Pineapple on the Mercadona shelf is waiting for you to find a couple."
The actress with humor is the popularity of a new trend.
"I think, according to the hype, which caused my video, it is rather hiding the desire for humor than for love," she says. "People want to laugh more than to flirt. I am sure that this trend will be entrenched in society.
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History has become public and led to unusual and sometimes chaotic situations.
In Madrid, the flash mob was joined by teenagers who pushed empty carts in the shops in the evening without buying goods.
One man was dressed in a giant pineapple costume in the store while celebrating a Parubotsk Party.
In Bilbao, Mercadona workers even had to call the police between 19:00 and 8:00 pm through noisy scenes in the store.
The Mercadona network did not first pay attention to the love hype with its participation. But they say that "pineapple mania" does not like many employees who have to rake out of unchanged goods.
In some offices all over the country, they even began to clean the pineapple sale at that time to restrain the romantic passion of customers.
The company claims that "the trend was launched without their participation, everything came out spontaneously."
Other networks - Lidl and Carrefour - were decided to join the flashmob. They reported this in their accounts in X (Twitter), but offered another distinctive sign - watermelon.
This is not the first time an inverted pineapple is used as a love code.
It is known that this fruit is also a symbol of Swingers - people interested in the exchange of sexual partners.
