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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:
gussyfinknottle · 16/03/2018 19:39

We have ours on the table. Easy to grab.
Good lord, am I common for having this as well ? I can't keep up.

Stinkbomb · 16/03/2018 19:36

I keep fruit in the fridge hth

Notso · 16/03/2018 19:26

I don't really like fruit except the odd strawberry, apple crumble and lime or lemon in my drink!

thehairyhog · 16/03/2018 19:25

We don’t have one either, we have an industrial style cage/basket on the wall for bananas, potatoes etc and the rest lives in the fridge. Warm apples Sad

Notso · 16/03/2018 19:24

Ours migrates from sideboard to dining table to kitchen table depending on what's in use.
Grapes and berries go in the fridge though.
My parents have separate dishes for apples, citrus fruits, bananas, grapes and tomatoes. It's like a mini green grocers.

itneverrainsitpours · 16/03/2018 19:22

I keep my fruit in the fridge 😱

UnreasonablyPissedOff · 16/03/2018 19:17

ginch try M&S williams pears - life changing!

We have a fruit bowl on the kitchen counter. I keep all fruit in it except grapes and all berries - they live in the fridge as they go mouldy too quickly.

Our fruit bowl currently has 4 lemons, 2 limes, bunch of fun size bananas, 3 pears, 2 apples.

It frequently has melon, satsumas, avocados, grapefruit

I love a well stocked fruit bowl!

I don't think M&S can be beaten for consistently good quality fruit

Teutonic · 16/03/2018 19:15

My fruit bowl sits in the centre of the dining table. However it contains no fruit, only fun sized choc bars and Cadbury hero's. 😋😋

GrumpyMummy123 · 16/03/2018 19:10
  • B not Bread....
GrumpyMummy123 · 16/03/2018 19:09

On the side in the kitchen.
A - so bananas are to hand when I do DS lunch box every morning (otherwise I'd forget)
Bread - so when the less popular oranges go manky they only drip in the side and not onto the wooden dining table (it's a wire basket)

Unless I've got 'new' friends coming round. Then I buy a pineapple and put the fruit bowl on the specially decluttered dining table....

ScreamingValenta · 16/03/2018 18:10

I hate fruit bowls, full-stop. I associate them with fruit getting dusty and warm and starting to smell. I keep fruit in the fridge.

tealandteal · 16/03/2018 18:09

Ours is on the dining table to prevent dogs eating all the apples.

Butchmanda · 16/03/2018 18:08

In an office job years ago we went through a stage of having fruit bowls on our desks and used to pop to the local market to stock up. It was lovely. (Just to distract us from the biscuit tin). All fine until my colleague came in one day and found rodent sized chunks taken out of her pears.

ginch · 16/03/2018 17:53

Why are pears so horrible now? they used to be my favourite fruit as a child, they have changed totally, who wants a hard, crunchy pear?

UnimaginativeUsername · 16/03/2018 17:46

I can’t really imagine that anyone gives any thought to where someone keeps their fruit bowl. Unless they keep it in the bathroom, I suppose.

storynanny · 16/03/2018 17:41

Mine is in the kitchen, but only because it would get too hot on the dining table which gets the sun on it a lot.
My husband wants to keep fruit in the fridge, I said no.

Loonoon · 16/03/2018 17:38

It is common to know where in your house fruit is stored. If you were properly posh your staff would take care of this for you.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 16/03/2018 17:38

Trills
Good point

This thread should be is it lower middle class to have the fruit bowl on the dining table.

Obviously, if someone is below lower middle class then any fruit bowl would only be used for microwave chip containers and as an ice bucket for alcopops.

Sgtmajormummy · 16/03/2018 17:36

I have two tables! Kitchen table for maximum three people and cooking. Dining room table for 4+, also for assisted homework, craft, laptops, paperwork and admin, board games, general dumping ground...

Our (huge, heavy, footed, artfully arranged and well stocked) fruit bowl stays in the kitchen and it’s the youngest person’s job to wash and bring everybody’s choice to the table.

Trendy1 · 16/03/2018 17:35

Sooo funny! Ours is on the windowsill - what do you think of that!!

Trills · 16/03/2018 17:34

If you were properly common you wouldn't have a fruit bowl at all - try harder.

kissmelittleass · 16/03/2018 17:32

Mines on the kitchen counter

roseannaleeXo · 16/03/2018 17:30

Kitchen counter

busyknee · 16/03/2018 17:27

Do not invite anyone into your home who you expect might judge you due to where you keep your fruit bowl.

Words to live by.

OohMavis · 16/03/2018 17:26

People have two tables? A dining and a kitchen one? How do you decide which one to eat at?