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

It goes in the fridge otherwise my house would be littered with apples with a single bite taken out and half eaten bananas 🤢

I prefer apples straight from the fridge. They’re crunchier that way.

I'm aghast at the idea of keeping apples and oranges in the fridge. My sensitive teeth are on edge at the very thought of biting into something fridge cold. Our fruit bowl is usually on the table. On the odd occasion we're going to have a posh meal with serving dishes on the table the fruit bowl gets moved onto the dresser to make room.

We also have a bowl on the dresser with tomatoes in it, and avocadoes when we have any. Tomatoes need to be at room temperature. Avocadoes ditto, so that they can ripen. Once ripe they can go in the fridge.

Pears have to be at room temperature too, on the offchance that I spot the five minute period when they're perfectly ripe but not overripe. Of course I usually miss this, but if they stayed in the fridge they'd be like turnips to the end of time.

Hubby has it wrong. My DH informs me fruit should not be on the dining table in a bowl because it should always be prepared for serving. I asked DMiL about this and she says that rule was to stop her 5 DCs emptying the bowl before she could fill it.

My Grannie would be appalled at all the people keeping fruit in the fridge growing tasteless. She was in service and was also of the opinion that fruit should be prepared rather than grabbed from the fruit bowl - mind you she also had 6 DC.

I moved ours from the dining table (which is in the conservatory now, having been moved from the dining area) as everyone was forgetting it was there & the fruit was going bad. Now it's on a side table in the living room and the DC are back to their usual fruit munching ways now it's back in their vision & they have free access to it again.

It's not unusual to have a fruit bowl on the table, no.

We have two!! So ner! One is on a small sideboard next to the tv that nobody watches. Other is on the piano which means we have to move it onto the dining table along with piles of newspapers to open the piano and play it. Which is probably why nobody does. We have a kitchen/diner. Tiny house. Piano wouldn't fit anywhere else.

Fruit bowl is on the kitchen island full of lemons and limes for gin. proper fruit is relegated to the fridge or cupboard if its bananas.

I have three, two are Victorian cut glass cake stands, one for apples and lemons and one for bananas. They are on the side in the kitchen and I have a small woven basket with oranges in the middle of the dining table.

Bananas should not touch other fruit.

Kitchen for us. As a child in the 60’s it was presented on the dining room table.

Ours is on the dresser in the dining room.
However, it currently holds a lightbulb, scrunchies fir DD's hair, my Oyster card, a pen and DH's half empty pack of Codeine 😳.
I don't think it's seen fruit since 1998.

We have a fruit bowl of shite, very much like the drawer of shite.

It's in the kitchen full of allen keys, screws, bobbles, pegs etc.

Ha ha!
Mine lives on the dresser in the dining room (open to the kitchen).
From there the teenagers and 10 yr old can empty it daily at their convenience.
Sometimes I put a random avocado on it. This enables 10 yr old
demonstrate their fruit knowledge to teen. Sometimes a turnip to piss off teenager

The only thing which is 'common' is judging others to be 'common' imo. (enjoys tautology of that)

Our fruit bowl moves backwards and forwards several times a week from the kitchen table to the worktop depending on whether DH moves his teetering pile of paperwork off the table so we can have enough space to eat meals
However last night our cats have discovered that I also keep random veg in the fruit bowl and have been enjoying noisy night time games of "onion football" in the kitchen. Fruit is now banished to the fridge - and onions well hidden!

no

I have a fruit basket which sits above the vegetable basket in a nifty under counter cupboard pull out thingummy. Some seasonal delicate items like plums or peaches are in a shallow bowl on the kitchen counter, though in the fridge if they are ripening too fast. Bananas are isolated in a part of a bowl drawer because they are evil ethylene producers who will over ripen other fruit if you let them. Avocados are sometimes tucked in with the bananas to encourage ripening.

I am a fruit bat, in a family of fruit bats, and have fruit management down to a fine art.

Ours is on the kitchen table.

My dining room suggested that our fruit bowl may be un-U. I am concerned it may be because we sent it to the local state school.

Ours is on the dining table, but our dining table seats 10, and there are only 5 of us, so we just scooch it down a little when we eat.

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Who gives a flying fuck?

^ I think this about covers it.

ours is on the microwave (hardly ever used)

When we had a Lego, dead batteries and random crap bowl it was on the kitchen worktop. It seemed to attract other kinds of junk too.

Ours is on the kitchen table after I realised that when it was kept on the dining table it inevitably got covered with papers and stuff so we'd forget fruit was in it and they'd all go rotten.

Now they go rotten in the kitchen instead.

Worktop here. But no real reason why.

It would go in the kitchen if there was any spare room on the worktops. So it either lives on the table and then gets moved when we want the room or it stays in its "temporary" position on the piano. Next to the dining table. Actually there are two bowls because I buy a lot of fruit. We're common as muck, despite the piano.