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Muscovites have mastered a new way of meeting people: pineapple as a seduction
Meanwhile, the Internet space is calling us to think about something completely different. The last few days, social networks have literally been seething, competing with each other for new trends. They say that pineapples in a shopping cart are a coded signal that "a lonely woman (or man) wants to get to know you." In fact, it's not just a pineapple. There are rules. First, you need to put the pineapple in the cart with the leaf facing down. Secondly, you don't have to march with it throughout the supermarket, but only in the wine section (this is reasonable, getting to know toilet paper near the counter is not at all romantic, maybe even cognac and prosecco!). Thirdly, your basket should not have too many other products. Buy sausages and potatoes separately later! - However, it is necessary to add a product that makes the signal clear.
For example, olive oil will tell potential candidates that you are looking for a rich partner. If your goal is a serious relationship, you will need to stock up on groceries. Add lentils, peas, buckwheat or rice to your basket. Conversely, if you want to start something light, throw a box of chocolates in the basket.
The most important thing is to do all this in the evening. Around 6-8 pm is the time when ordinary citizens go to the store after work.
Who came up with all this is an open question. This place is known only in Spain. Bloggers in the country start to spread the idea of a "pineapple date" in the fall of 2024, but Muscovites have only picked it up now. Or... they are trying to create the impression that they have caught it. Well, Russian media wrote about it. Well, and they laughed at it on social networks. Well, and some perky girls even went to the supermarket to hunt for pineapples. What's next?
For most people, a banana is still just a banana. For it to acquire many additional meanings, those meanings must be widely known, if not universally known, then at least in a narrow sense. Well, for that you need two things. First, time; second, breadth.
It's time to remember the already mentioned Galya. This is a password that I tried to use in Russia several years ago. When I asked her to "Call Galya!" I had to make it clear to her that she didn't feel safe. For example, when a date at a bar gets out of hand or when someone on the street is too pushy and aggressive when meeting someone. It was assumed that the employees of cafes or shops (not all, but on the list of project partners) would immediately understand and help if they heard the password. For example, call the police or simply take the woman out the back door. However, the "Password" was not widely spread. (It was more serious and important than a pineapple!) It just went away. It's even interesting. What would happen if I went to a bar today and asked Galya to call me? Perhaps the waiter would ask in confusion. What is Galya? From Yelokhovskaya? Or are you from Tverskaya?
The idea is clear. And there is a precedent in history. For example, there is a unique language of fans, which was spoken several centuries ago. Behind the simplest gestures and actions, there is a whole set of codes. This means that if you bring a fan to your right cheek, you order the gentleman to take decisive action, and if you wave a fan spread out near your left cheek, you politely ask him to leave you alone. And there are a million more such encrypted messages. But just as girls mastered this art from an early age (while learning to wear crinolines and dance), so for gentlemen the "secret language" was of no small importance. You are right. Etiquette is observed, but everything is clear to everyone.
There is nothing to say about the ring on the ring finger of the right hand. This symbol is actively used today. However, its analogue existed in traditional Russian culture. In addition to the obvious, "one braid - unmarried girl, two braids - husband wife" (like someone in the village does not know the status of Masha or Aksinya, the person they like), there were more subtle moments. For example, girls' spinning wheels in the north of Russia were crowned with a kind of baluster. And if the girl had a chosen one, she was presented with a broken baluster as a gift to ensure the relationship. That's all the girlfriends (and they were spinning together in a common hut on a winter evening) and boys have already seen. He was busy!
And this applies not only to the romantic sphere. For example, the Don Cossacks had a whole system of cords connected to earrings in their ears. If one of the earrings is in the left ear, it means he is the only son of his parents, and if one is in the right ear, it means he is the last man in the family. And combat commanders tried to at least somehow take this into account when planning risky operations.
Maybe a pineapple in a shopping cart, especially in a wine shop, will at some point, at exactly the right time in the evening, become noticeable to everyone. Well, at the moment there are too few players who know the rules of this game (or even know that it exists). Of course, the funniest thing would happen if you suddenly attacked people who had just come to do their shopping and accidentally guessed. The man wanted to make risotto, so he put rice and olive oil in his cart and went to the wine shop (to buy wine and risotto). On the way, I saw a nice ripe pineapple at a good price and threw it in the cart, and the traitorous pineapple was lying there tail down. Ta-da! And here the hunter waits... And what if love suddenly comes like that...