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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Nuray Bulbul

Spanish shoppers are using pineapples at the supermarket to search for love – the craze explained

A trend in Spain that encourages singles to look for spouses in supermarkets by using a code based on fruit has resulted in some tumultuous scenes, to the point where the police have been summoned to restore order.

Claims that single Spaniards can find romance between 7pm and 8pm in Mercadona supermarkets have attracted a lot of single people in recent days, especially if they put an upside-down pineapple in their shopping carts.

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