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

Agree that fruit does not taste good anymore.

That's a shame. The stuff we buy from our local market tastes great, if you have a local greengrocer or market it's worth supporting them. I agree that a lot of supermarket stuff lacks flavour, especially when it's out of season.

Common as in frequent or common as in class judgment?

I dunno, I have a round dark oak very small dining table, and I just like having the tall dark wood salt and pepper grinders at the centre! God that makes me sound quaker

Agree that fruit does not taste good anymore.

I've got the opposite problem mrsKoala all ours gets eaten too quick if it's in plain sight!!

I have various fruit bowls which are for different types of fruit. I collect them - like vases - they are all huge too. They sit on the kitchen surfaces while the fruit slowly turns to a green dust. Then i bin it and then buy it again. I just got rid of my xmas pomegranates last week.

No one eats fruit here. It tastes like cold crunchy piss.

There'd be no room on the dining table as it's always covered in folded laundry and playmobile.

Dining table. Sitting on a doily.

A DOILY

I don't have a fruit bowl. If I leave it out in bowls every single fruit has small bite marks in it thanks to smallest DC. She does it to veg too. If I don't put stuff out of reach quickly enough when unpacking shopping my broccoli is lightly gnawed.

She's not a toddler, she's 5

Ours is on the dining table.

My kitchen is so pokey I don't have counter space let alone a table in there to put it on.

We eat at the table all the time. Never have a need to move it 🤔😕

Ours is on top of the microwave in the kitchen. We don't have a kitchen big enough for a table, and our dining table's folded 364 days of the year because of lack of space. There's nowhere else to put a fruit bowl.

I don't have a fruit bowl. I keep fruit in the cupboard. Berries however go in the fridge.

When I had a fruit bowl growing up, it was usually on the kitchen table, not on the dining table. Never put any thought into it until now though really.

Ski40 I know the struggle! Toddlers and pretty things don't mix

I always thought it was common.

What's common is worrying about it.

It's quite retro. My parents have a mixed fruit bowl on their coffee table - they like a piece of fruit after dinner

We have a massive glass bowl of lemons and limes on the kitchen island. We use the odd one, but generally throw them all out and replace them once a week. We are very poncey.

No, but saying hubby is the give away

We don't really eat fresh fruit, apart from cooking with citrus occasionally we'll have a few bananas and they will linger on the worktop. We have a pot of salt and chilli on the table.

*who stores

Another eho stored fruit in the fridge. Why would you leave it out all the time? Doesn't it go off quicker?

I am as common as muck. I have a basket of bananas on the kitchen island, a glass bowl of apples on the dining room table, another glass bowl of navel oranges on another large table in the family area and a mixed basket of fruit on a kitchen sideboard.

I have a smaller bowl that orbits around for the apples that go soft or don’t taste as sweet - they are for the horses.

I don't have a fruit bowl. I keep most of my fruit in a fridge drawer as we like it cold, except the bananas which are kept in a low cupboard (out of sight as I can't stand the smell of them 😂). I used to put out a pretty glass bowl on the side full of oranges and lemons in the summer and shiny red apples in the autumn... until my toddler decided to start using the fruit as projectiles all over the place....Can't have anything pretty around him... sigh 😕

Mine is kept on the kitchen table, in my last house where there was no kitchen table it was on the dining table (in the living room, never had a dining room either).

We used to keep it on the kitchen worktop but have had to move it to the dining room table as the puppy (Labrador) can reach the very back of the worktop and was munching his way through the fruit when left unsupervised.

@trills yes!

Ours is in the kitchen away from little boys who would eat its entire contents if not supervised!

Put it where you eat fruit, unless it is for decoration, in which case put it wherever you want.

Don't have one! The dogs would help themselves our fruit lives in the (turned off) rayburn.

Kitchen work top. Of course our dining room table is plenty large enough to accommodate it, but I’d never put it there ....

Not sure. We have one, have done ever since we had children.

But we don't like them going flying into the kitchen so have as little reason as possible for them to use to be going into the kitchen. So this is mainly why the fruit bowl is on the dining table, rather than fruit just kept in the kitchen.