This Valentine’s Day, love wasn’t just in the air. It was in Benny Blanco’s pickle jar.
On Wednesday, the producer and expert mixologist (of red wine and milk) prepared a romantic meal for girlfriend Selena Gomez by whipping up her favorite snack: fried pickles. The PDA-obsessed couple started dating sometime last year and have been quite enthusiastic about posting both their mutual adoration (“best fwend”) and their cooking escapades (meatball-making) online, so it’s no surprise that Blanco would choose to broadcast his secret mission to “get laid” to the world.
“Guy’s, it’s Valentine’s Day and these are my girlfriend’s favorite pickles,” Blanco said in a TikTok video, which he captioned “Fry pickles get laid.” The only complication to the recipe? Gomez prefers her pickles from Texas: Best Maid Hamburger Slices, to be exact.
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Blanco, modern gentleman that he is, proceeded to make his girl Selener fried pickles with Sprite batter with the sole intention of getting some ass as a reward! (“Make your batter,” he said. “I put Sprite in mine. If you don’t like it, go fuck yourself.”) He concluded the highbrow culinary experience by marveling at his masterpiece: “Take one, dip it, ranch, eat it, get laid.”
Pickles aside, it must have been a memorable first Valentine’s Day for these two, given that Gomez announced a new single, “Love On,” the next day. The song was reportedly inspired by a trip Gomez took to Paris, and it fits snugly within the honeymoon-branded period she and Blanco seem to be relishing. Whatever Blanco’s selling — jars of Best Maid Hamburger Slices, perhaps — Gomez is clearly buying in bulk.