Pineapples Are Bringing Sexy Back in Spain — Especially When Flipped Upside Down

When a lovelorn shopper spots another upside down pineapple in another person’s cart, that’s when the magic happens.

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Singles looking to mingle in Spain are flipping pineapples on their heads. Anthony Grant/The New York Sun

File this under things that will probably never happen at Costco  — a Spanish dating craze that involves flipping pineapples upside down in grocery carts and canvassing for some amor between the aisles. 

If that sounds a little coconuts, it is worth recalling that Spain is the country that made a national sport of men in brightly colored tights fighting bulls to the death. So next to that, using exotic fruit to score a date seems tame. 

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