Twitter user’s viral thread on wanting to date the ‘old-fashioned’ way, sparks reactions

Dating was all about dinners, meeting at cute cafes, and other outdoor activities but with the pandemic, meeting people has been replaced with dating apps, video calls, and Netflix parties.

A Twitter user sparked a conversation online as they wanted to go back to the ‘old-fashioned way of dating.’

@jzux in a tweet wrote, “Deleting my dating apps because I want to meet someone the old fashioned way (he sells me onions, I sell him jars of spiced peaches).”

The tweet referred to a 1998 Young Adult novel Holes, where a boy named Sam exchanges his onions with one of the protagonists for a jar of peaches.

The tweet went viral and netizens were quick to indulge in the thread and started making versions of their own.