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Nine Dating Apps That Will Match You With Your Foodie Soulmate

Time and time again, singles go out and date people who seem charming, funny, and good-looking. Things are going great until that one lunch date when you realize your potential significant other actually prefers Jimmy John's to Publix subs and you have to call the whole thing off. Food differences are irreconcilable differences.

It's hard to find someone whose taste buds perfectly align with yours, but these nine dating apps will get you one step closer to finding your foodie soulmate. A happy stomach is a happy heart.

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9. Restdejting

If you're single and live alone, it's easy to overcook and spend the rest of your week eating the leftovers out of Tupperware. And with every spoonful of cold spaghetti, you're reminded of the emptiness on the other side of your queen-sized bed. But there's an app for that! It's still only in Sweden, but Swedish farmer's cooperative Lantmannen has recognized the correlation between single people and leftover food and has made an app to join like-minded environmentalists through their leftover food. You list five ingredients in your fridge and you're paired with someone in need of those ingredients. One ad from the website reads "Large walnut looking for strong cheese. Meal for two? Look forward to hearing from you." rawr!

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Jess Swanson is a staff writer at New Times. Born and raised in Miami, she graduated from the University of Miami’s School of Communication and wrote briefly for the student newspaper until realizing her true calling: pissing off fraternity brothers by reporting about their parties on her crime blog. Especially gifted in jumping rope and solving Rubik’s cubes, she also holds the title for longest stint as an unpaid intern in New Times history. She left the Magic City for New York to earn her master’s degree from Columbia University School of Journalism, where she spent a year profiling circumcised men who were trying to regrow their foreskins for a story that ultimately won the John Horgan Award for Critical Science Journalism. Terrified by pizza rats and arctic temperatures, she quickly returned to her natural habitat.
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