How the pineapple became an icon of hookup culture everywhere

A new kind of meet-cute is currently taking off in Spain, and it requires a trip to the produce aisle. On TikTok, a quick search of “Mercadona” (a Spanish supermarket chain) yields hundreds of videos of young shoppers strolling about the fruit aisle—always between the hours of 7 and 8 p.m.—with an upside-down pineapple in their carts. To outsiders, the ulta-specific trend looks like a strange occurrence of group psychosis. But to participants, the action symbolizes a very specific...