Placing a bunch of bananas in your sopping trolley with their ends pointing up toward the ceiling could indicate you are single, young shoppers have claimed.
And it’s not the only secret message singles are sending each other in Australian supermarkets, with many believing adding a pineapple with the crown pointing to the ceiling means you’re actively looking for a relationship.
An upside down pineapple, on the other hand, suggests you are into ‘swinging and on the hunt for a new playmate’.
These are just some of the ‘sexual shopping list’ items some are using to find a partner in public, despite first becoming popular in the early 2000s.
One woman, from New Farm, in Brisbane, said she knew people who used bananas to find lovers two decades ago and isn’t surprised the cheeky trick has resurfaced.
‘I saw a note in the local paper about it, a banana pointing to the ceiling means the shopper is available,’ she said.
Singles are using fruit to signal their need for intimacy to other shoppers – a pineapple the right way up means a woman is looking for a male partner
The banana tactic has been used for over 20 years, according to some flirty shoppers in the comments of this fruity conversation
‘But it’s mostly people in the LGBTQI+ community wo use it around here,’ she added.
Some admitted they had heard of the banana technique but never tried it, and are not sure it would work.
‘The urban myth 20 years ago was a single banana prominently displayed meant you were single. I’ve never noticed what other people are doing with their bananas though nor have I been flirted with at the supermarket,’ one woman said.
Others made jokes about the nuances of sexualised fruit.
‘I thought you were supposed to eat the banana, without taking a bite,’ one man said.
And some, who had never heard of the urban myth began to overthink.
Bananas facing upwards mean the shopper could be looking for something more intimate
‘Questioning my decision to send my husband to woolies for bananas an hour ago for school lunches this week,’ one woman laughed on a Reddit thread on the topic.
Some said there are more obvious ways to let people know you are looking for intimacy.
‘If you load the basket up with lube and condoms you might catch someone’s eye,’ they said.
‘Cut the banana BS and get straight to the point. Just walk up to the cute person and tell them they’re hot and you want their phone number,’ said another.
The idea of a sexually suggestive shopping basket excited former Bachelor star come podcaster Brittany Hockley.
The 35-year-old singleton said there are several little-known signs people use while shopping to make it clear they are looking for something more than just groceries.
‘There is this myth that you can go and pick up in a supermarket and there are all these signs and signals that you can pick up, depending on what’s in your trolley,’ she explained on her podcast Life Uncut.
Brittany Hockley has revealed the ‘secret code’ shoppers can use in the supermarket to show they are single, looking for love, or open to swinging
‘And I have some hot goss: it is a single’s club,’ she added.
Brittany explained that supermarket cruising requires single shoppers to get a trolley and head to the fruit aisle, where each item signals a different meaning.
‘If you pick up a bunch of bananas, if they are upright, meaning the curve is facing up, this means you are single,’ she said.
She added that if you just want to buy bananas but you’re not looking for sex, you turn them the other way.
‘If you have a pineapple, and it’s upside down in your trolley, you are showing everyone you are open to swinging,’ she went on.
The 35-year-old singleton said there are several little-known signs people use while shopping to make it clear they are looking for something more than just groceries
An upside-down pineapple is believed to be a sign for swingers to recognise one another in public, explained Brittany
‘If you want to show your interest in a man, you put a peach in his trolley.’
An upside-down pineapple is believed to be a universal sign for swingers to recognise one another in public.
According to fact-checking website Snopes, in parts of the U.S., hanging a bunch of bananas through the wires of a shopping cart has at times been a way for a male shopper to indicate his desire to meet up with women.
A pineapple in a woman’s cart is said to indicate an interest in meeting a man.
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