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Is it common to have the fruit bowl on the dining table?

305 replies

viiswi · 16/03/2018 15:41

Hi

Hubby and I have a dilema.

He wants the fruit bowl on the dining table.

I always thought it was common. We currently have it on a side table.

Please be gentle with me.....Grin

x

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UnimaginativeUsername · 16/03/2018 16:33

Is the distinction between ‘dining table’ and ‘kitchen table’ some sort of weird MN thing. I don’t know anyone who has two tables for eating dinner at.

wink1970 · 16/03/2018 16:32

I can honestly say I have never thought about this!

Ours is on the coffee table, where we look at it weekly until it goes in the bin. Perhaps if it was on the table we would eat more - we eat lunch at home most days so I might move it.

On the other hand, I have an antique glass cherry bowl that sits on the dining sideboard. That is full of Ferrero Rocher.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 16/03/2018 16:32

*paxillin Fri 16-Mar-18 16:14:56

Have I missed International Hyacinth Bucket Day?*

Brilliant

Our fruit bowl lives on the kitchen worksurface

VenusOfWillendorf · 16/03/2018 16:31

I don't have a dining table. Just a kitchen table (used for dining). Its usually on the kitchen table, but sometimes gets sidelined to a sideboard.
Its not mixed. Usually either bananas or apples. The other fruit I like are strawberries and raspberries and I keep those in the fridge.
Am sure I'm as common as they come ...

Mrsmadevans · 16/03/2018 16:31

kitchen worktop here too

VladmirsPoutine · 16/03/2018 16:30

You use the word "hubby" and you are worried that your fruit bowl makes you look common?

This must be a peak MN through-the-looking-glass moment Grin

UnimaginativeUsername · 16/03/2018 16:28

We don’t have a fruit bowl either. When we did, it was full of assorted crap rather than fruit (which lives in the fridge, except bananas). So we got rid of our Lego bits and dead batteries and broken pens bowl.

BuffyBee · 16/03/2018 16:27

Mines on the kitchen worktop!

All food should be kept in the kitchen until consumed! According to my old Granny!
It wouldn't worry me where ever other people want to keep it though.

Jux · 16/03/2018 16:27

Kitchen table. Mind you, that's where we eat so we do have to move it for most meals. If I do the dishing up at the cooker and just hand people full plates, then it's not in the way, but if we put food in dishes for self-serving then there's not enough room so it's moved at table laying time.

I used to have it on the coffee table in the sitting room so dd and her friends could help themselves easily while playing, but now studying and jigsaw making have taken over in there, so it's been in the kitchen for about 5 years.

BizzyFuxtons · 16/03/2018 16:26

My kitchen table (at which we eat every night) houses a mountain of paperwork, a light fitting which needs to be sent back, a pair of slippers (ditto), a pot of paint, some expired gift cards and several magazines, all unread. There isn't space for the fruit bowl, which lives on the dresser instead, next to the Sellotape and an ancient plastic Tinky Winky's hat (a remnant of one of the DC's infancy, which I can't bring myself to part with). Dunno how posh that makes me, though.

halfwitpicker · 16/03/2018 16:25

You can rest easy tonight, FreudianSlurp Grin

goodiegoodieyumyum · 16/03/2018 16:24

Ours sits in the middle of the coffee table in our living room, we have no room in our kitchen or on our dining table and I find more fruit gets eaten by my children this way than hiding it away in the kitchen. Grapes have their own separate bowl as I find they get lost in a mixed fruit bowl.

Growing ours was in our kitchen but we had a huge kitchen/ diner and lots of counter space.

InterstellarSleepingElla · 16/03/2018 16:23

I keep the fruit in the fridge (bananas included) in one of the salad/chiller drawers.

Ontopofthesunset · 16/03/2018 16:22

Kitchen with all other food, therefore (depending on space and your kitchen layout) worktop, kitchen table or dresser. We have it on our island now we have one but used to have it on the worktop. The only fruit anyone in this house eats now is bananas and blueberries (which are in the fridge) so it's a pretty sad fruit bowl.

Snobbles · 16/03/2018 16:22

Old fashioned rather than common.

Are you a fan of the antimacassar by any chance?

morningconstitutional2017 · 16/03/2018 16:22

I eat fruit every day but I never leave a bowl of anything edible on any table as I couldn't guarantee that puss wouldn't rub her face in it.

ChardonnaysPrettySister · 16/03/2018 16:20

What’s with all the dining room dilemma today?

Who can be arsed with dining room arrangements?

gingercat02 · 16/03/2018 16:20

Ours is the kitchen on the worktop

LillianGish · 16/03/2018 16:19

This is the most hilarious thread ever - marking my place.

FreudianSlurp · 16/03/2018 16:19

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ginch · 16/03/2018 16:18

Fruit is all kept separate, we're well posh.

TerfsUp · 16/03/2018 16:17

It depends. Do you have a stunt pineapple?

If so, dining room table. If not, the bowl is banished to the kitchen.

halfwitpicker · 16/03/2018 16:17

Mason jars are only wanky if you are eating mauve coloured overnights oats out of them on the train.

Otherwise they're fine.

FreudianSlurp · 16/03/2018 16:16

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BossWitch · 16/03/2018 16:15

Dining table so that dd can reach it. I like being able to send her to get her own banana!

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