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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

OP posts:
ReinettePompadour · 16/03/2018 16:15

@CrackingEggs me too....but I dont have mice eating the fruit, its the dogs here Blush

clippityclop · 16/03/2018 16:15

Ours is on the kitchen table and gets shoved down the bus a bit while we we eat, no hassle at all. Don't give a stuff if it's common, I think it looks nice and I'm sure we wouldn't eat as much fruit if it was all tidied away in the fridge.

ILikeyourHairyHands · 16/03/2018 16:15

I have three bowls on the dresser in the kitchen, one bowl for citrus, one for tomatoes and avocados, one for apples, pears etc. Bananas live at the side of them. If there are grapes, figs, cherries or any other stone-fruit, they live in a separate shallow bowl to mitigate the risk of mouldering escapees.

WeAllHaveWings · 16/03/2018 16:15

If I put my fruit bowl on our tiny fold out dining table there would be no room for our dinner.

Think you are meant to move it to the side board (where you keep your good china, crystal glasses and silverware) when you set out the table for dinner and replace after clearing.

Fruit bowls on the dinner room table is a bit old fashioned. I guess it depends where your dinning room is and how often its used. Ours is (mostly empty as the fruit is in the fridge) on the kitchen worktop.

Onlyoldontheoutside · 16/03/2018 16:15

When I had a big kitchen it was on the counter.Now I have a tiny kitchenI first put it on the dining room table but found that since it was mainly out of site no one ate the fruit so it's now on a small table in the sitting room and gets eaten.

paxillin · 16/03/2018 16:14

Have I missed International Hyacinth Bucket Day?

FloydOnThePull · 16/03/2018 16:14

Yes, unashamedly so. It should be on your breakfast bar, unwrapped, washed and with any labels removed.

As other's have pointed out, 'hubby' has already given you away, you are fooling nobody.

(Alternatively and realistically, you should put it wherever people are most likely to see it and eat some fruit rather than occasionally wondering what that smell is and then noticing all the fruit is rotting, throwing it away and buying some more which is what happens in our house Wink)

TomRavenscroft · 16/03/2018 16:14

PS I am from a common-as-muck background.

TomRavenscroft · 16/03/2018 16:13

Never mind a fruit bowl, Nigella Lawson likes to keep all kinds of fruit separate and even have black and white grapes on different plates, and she's pretty posh. She calls it 'institutional' to have a mixed bowl, for which read 'common'. Grin

My fruit is all cheerfully mixed together, sometimes with some renegade veg too. It's only not on the table because the table is too cluttered. It's on a sort of side unit/storage thing in the kitchen.

NellMangel · 16/03/2018 16:13

I'm so common I don't have a dining table.

Titsywoo · 16/03/2018 16:13

We don't have a fruit bowl we have a fruit drawer in the fridge. I like my fruit cold Grin.

Areyoufree · 16/03/2018 16:13

I grew up in a household where it was frowned upon to say 'serviette', 'toilet', 'settee' or 'lounge'. There was no shame surrounding the placement of the fruit bowl.

FreudianSlurp · 16/03/2018 16:12

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halfwitpicker · 16/03/2018 16:11

Is sideboard common or not?

PyongyangKipperbang · 16/03/2018 16:10

Ours is on the coffee table. I wouldnt have it on the dining table as the kids would forget it was there and the fruit wouldnt get eaten, but thats the only reason. I cant say I have ever considered it but no, I dont think it is particularly common.

FluffyMcCloud · 16/03/2018 16:10

If I put my fruit bowl on our tiny fold out dining table there would be no room for our dinner.

Elementtree · 16/03/2018 16:09

Oh, I like a bit of MN 'commoner anxiety', come on then, let's be having all the trivial ways that you set yourself apart from the unwashed masses...

ThatGirl82 · 16/03/2018 16:08

Ours is on a sideboard in the dining room.

Luckily I don’t have a hubby and my boyfriend doesn’t mind where the fruit bowl is located.

halfwitpicker · 16/03/2018 16:08

I thought you meant common as in popular.

We have one, yes. It isn't full of fruit though.

expatinscotland · 16/03/2018 16:08

Who gives a flying fuck?

slithytove · 16/03/2018 16:06

Ours is on the sideboard in the dining room next to the banana tree

CrackingEggs · 16/03/2018 16:06

Ours lives in the microwave to keep it away from the mice...

chimpandzee · 16/03/2018 16:05

I don't have a fruit bowl. Well I do, but it's full of random crap like pencil sharpeners and happy meal toys. All my fruit is in the fridge.

whiskyowl · 16/03/2018 16:05

Fruit belongs in the fridge, except bananas which you sling in whatever cupboard you can find. Otherwise it becomes clutter.

mrsm43s · 16/03/2018 16:04

Fruit bowl on the dining table, and we eat all meals at the dining table. I just move the fruit bowl up from the middle to the end of the table when I lay the table. We have a 6/8 seater table,though and a family of 4, so plenty of room for us and a fruit bowl.

I'm not aware that where the fruit bowl goes is a class signifier at all. Dining room table seems the most sensible place for it to live, although I also have one in the kitchen.