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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:
Bubblebug1 · 17/03/2018 19:51

I got rid of my fruit bowl because it seemed pointless when I buy a bunch of bananas occasionally to mash for the baby, or pre cut fruit when out. We eat lots of veg but not really a fruit household.

WinterBootsNeeded · 17/03/2018 19:48

We have a metal flower bowl from Ikea currently with four bags of apples in it, (which should last about a week) on our dining table. Low enough that even our youngest can reach it.

MadameFireweed · 17/03/2018 19:47

Fruit bowl location is indicative of nothing. Using the word 'common' however - that's rather vulgar.

RaindropsAndSparkles · 17/03/2018 19:45

I've a stainless steel thing for fruit (hardly used). I have broken two gawgus Dartington fruit/trifle bowl thingies. Nought an even more gawjus trifle/fruit bowl thingy from the charity shop last week. Al cut crystal. £4 Grin

Loyaultemelie · 17/03/2018 19:45

Ours is on the kitchen table but we had to take the chairs away because DN, DN and Dd2 decided to climb up and sit on the table rather than the chairs and I got fed up removing yelling at DD while DSis ignored her two. Yes I realise the fruit bowl is the least of my problems Blush

kaytee87 · 17/03/2018 19:39

I hate cold fruit straight out the fridge 😖

JustMarriedAndLovingIt · 17/03/2018 19:36

You all have fruit bowls?!!

manicmij · 17/03/2018 19:35

In the fridge. Most fruit in this house goes in the fridge apart from bananas and even those can go in apparently. Fruit bowls probably came about when folk didn't have fridges and when fruit was a real luxury and displayed for wealth.

kaytee87 · 17/03/2018 19:09

I have mine in the kitchen where we keep the rest of the food. I'd be annoyed having to walk through to the dining room anytime I wanted a bit of fruit.

riceuten · 17/03/2018 19:05

Dining room table

And then moved into the kitchen when eating occurred. Should have just left it there

Trying44 · 17/03/2018 18:47

I can't believe I just spent 20 minutes of my life reading where people keep their fruit bowls Hmm

Mine is also a junk drawer fruit bowl Grin

GoSuckAFart · 17/03/2018 18:17

mine has a life of its own and moves around the kitchen.

why are fruit bowls always so dull? I'm thinking mine needs a dinosaur head or something.

Notso · 17/03/2018 18:16

The fish not the fruit bowl!

Notso · 17/03/2018 18:15

I sometimes look at our goldfish wistfully and think it's tank is in the ideal place for the fruit bowl. Then I quickly apologise to it!

Kayzarimya1 · 17/03/2018 18:09

On the dining table!

Fadingmemory · 17/03/2018 18:04

What does it matter? Are you worried that people will classify you according where you keep your satsumas?

user1483875094 · 17/03/2018 18:02

Absolutely normal.... for the seventies! (Terrible era of snobbiness and pseudo "dinner parties" and all that tripe! Have it where it is convenient to your family though - and if that is on the dining table, then stick with it. Your house, your rules! x

beachcomber767 · 17/03/2018 17:59

Interesting topic. Have no fruit bowl, bananas hang on hook of delightful banana gadget to enable them to ripen evenly and everything else in chiller where it never goes off.

sparklyllama · 17/03/2018 17:59

Wherever I leave ours, it ALWAYS ends up on 12 year old DD's desk, (in the lounge). She hoovers it up!

Sarahrellyboo1987 · 17/03/2018 17:56

Apart from bananas all my fruit goes in the fridge! It tastes awful when left out!

Grandma2002 · 17/03/2018 17:52

Keep bananas on a hook on worktop and rest of the fruit in ss rack in kitchen. Fruit only goes on dining table when it is for dessert. I am definitely common/post 'cos we eat in the kitchen.

ArchibaldsDaddy · 17/03/2018 17:38

Surely it's in the pantry...or the domestic help bring it when required??

Worrals · 17/03/2018 17:37

Never eat fruit. Too much sugar!

Original poster
viiswi · 17/03/2018 13:17

I'm just waiting for someone to post their party guests car keys 😉

That's hysterical. lol.

x

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