To think most people still have a fruit bowl?

[AgentZigzag]

My friend doesn't, and I think she's the odd one out.

She keeps her fruit, and chocolate in the fridge.

My 'fruit bowl' is a <a class="break-all" href="http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=small+round+wicker+basket&hl=en&sa=X&biw=1146&bih=718&tbm=isch&prmd=imvns&tbnid=zJ3VDvGAsfxY7M:&imgrefurl=www.welldressedtables.co.uk/products/Table_Accessories/Tableware/Wicker_Bread_Basket_Round/1090/&docid=xpPjmsou9r8YmM&w=300&h=300&ei=dnaHTv_zB8y78gOT44A1&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=327&page=2&tbnh=158&tbnw=158&start=15&ndsp=15&ved=1t:429,r:12,s:15&tx=66&ty=103" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">wicker basket I got as a freebie full of crappy smellies from Grattan yonks ago when we were poor.

It's not swish by any stretch of the imagination, but I'm fond of it

Although, taking it to the other extreme, I saw a lass on telly a bit ago having a go at her DP because he'd had an apple out of the fruit bowl when he should have got it from the cupboard

Her fruitbowl was for ornamental purposes only.

I bet she's the kind of person who irons her kegs and socks

In addition to apples, bananas & citrussy things, my fruit bowl also has onions and a couple of spuds in it. Is that weird?

I have several fruit bowls. One has fruit in it, and the others have all manner of crap stuff in.

It is Fiend.

HTH.

Maybe it's only middle class if you only keep fruit in them?

Ai, (Puts on posh voice) have several fruit bowls:
3 Crystal bowls (gifts, which live in the garage, packed away for a worthy occasion)
2 Tupperware bowls - 1 large, 1 medium sized
2 pottery bowls with hand painted flowers on, 1 large, 1 medium sized
A set of 3 wicker and wire trays which are used for large fruit when we have bought too much displays.
1 wire cakestand which is also used to hold fruit on an occasion.
2 large sized glass bowls which are also used to hold fruit.
We don't use them all at the saime taime though, I hasten to add.

However, we usually keep fruit in the fridge in a drawer as it keeps fresher for longer. If I put it in the fruit bowl, it doesn't get eaten and just goes off.
Except for bananas, these are kept on kitchen worktop so that I can watch them go through all the colour changes till they are practically brown and decide to make banana bread. Then my husband will eat two of the three that I have earmarked and complain that they are going off. If I eat any bananas while they are still yellow, I will get complaints that there aren't enough bananas for banana and peanut butter sandwiches.

Fruit is only actually eaten in our house when I have specific plans for it ie next days lunchbox or baking or fruit salad for expected visitors. Otherwise my family ignore the piles of rotting fruit I have artistically displayed around the house.
Same goes for salad in this household! Why can't they eat it on the day as I have planned? But no, no-one feels like it right then but as soon as I have eaten binned the stuff, they all NEED their 5 a day?

:o Agent, thanks

I have two fruit bowls... as a childminder I go through tons of fruit (and a good variety)... plus I keep bananas separate from the other fruit.

Re food mentioned... tomatoes, grapes, all berries and chocolate in the fridge for sure, along with tomato sauce and butter! Apples, satsumas and avos in the (non banana) fruit bowl.

I have a fruit bowl for apples, mandarins, bananas, lemons - I keep grapes in a separate bowl, ditto cherries.
I keep melon and strawberries in the fridge.
I have always had a fruit bowl - in the UK it was a wicker basket, lined with plastic and then a piece of kitchen towel (after a couple of mould incidents ) - now it is my grandmother's cut glass bowl with grape-holder centrepiece (that has glass grapes in it).

Chocolate is in the fridge over summer here or it would be a greasy puddle in the cupboard; but the rest of the year it is in the cupboard.

Fiend - I wouldn't keep onions in with your fruit, doesn't it taint the fruit? Potatoes - less of an issue.

No fresh fruit here right now - we always end up with fruit flies because the kids never eat it fast enough, so we only buy what will be eaten that day now. Seems to go off ruddy quick in this humidity too - a bag of grapes was mouldy the next day, so we keep it in the fridge except bananas.

Competitive fruit-bowling?

You're all bananas

Big fruit 3 tier shower quadrant wire thing here. Apples are kept in the bread bin in the cupboard. Soft fruit in the fridge.

Bananas on the top tier as they produce ethene which is the fruit ripening hormone. That's why you shove green tomatoes in a paper bag with bananas to ripen them.

I have 3 fruit bowls, 1 for apples, 1 for kiwis and oranges, and a big one for bananas. We eat a lot of fruit.

But chocolate goes in the fridge, unless it's dd's which belongs in her treat basket in the larder.

I have a fruit bowl. I struggle to keep it full due to having two kids who are fruit mad and a preschool demands we bring fruit for snacks daily along with AT LEAST one fruit and AT LEAST one veg in every lunch. I never keep bananas in it as they do make the other fruit go off. As far as washing it first...you ever notice that flies land on it now and then? Always wash it before you eat it. Blech.

I have a metal/wire fruit bowl on the kitchen window sill. Nothing is allowed in there apart from fruit! Put strawberries, grapes etc in the fridge though. Also chocolate goes in the fridge too. Do you all keep ketchup in the fridge? I do, but my mum keeps hers in the cupboard!

Ketchup in fridge shutup, says you should on the bottle, I'm a rule obeyer :o

Just the one fruit bowl here, soles, citrus and bananas in it. Everything else plus spares are in the fridge.

my mother still rations fruit as it is so very high in calories

this is the least of our worries

we have a ceramic blue and white bowl which is ransacked daily

I have a banana hanger. Most other fruit lives in the fridge.

We have a fruit bowl/plate fusion. Hand turned cherry wood or something - it was a wedding present. It looks nice but things tend to fall out. I only keep chocolate in the fridge to put me off eaing it, occasionally. It never works.

Someone i bumped into in the supermarket yesterday said he gets through loads of apples and carrots for the horses. Fancy buying apples in Sept/Oct when they are just dripping off trees and rotting everywhere!
Apple Crumble, Apple shortcake, Baked apples here! And all free, my fruitbowl is overflowing, blackberries too!

Potatoes and onions go in a basket wot i made myself out off off willow

Urgh I hate warm fruit! everything is kept in the fridge here :) DP sometimes takes it a step to far and puts the chocolate spread and peanut butter in the fridge though, I have to punish him when he does this.

see I'm the opposite, cleannteeth - I hate cold fruit! Which is why the melons often go off before they're finished, because they have to be stored in the fridge and I have to bring them out and warm them up before I can eat them.

nancerama - my Dad has a banana hanger - I think it makes them go riper quicker - what do you think?

Weevil - good one, making your own willow basket! [admiring]
I keep all veg in the fridge. My Dad has a wire basket for veg in the pantry, but it just goes off too quickly.

I think that apples, oranges, pears and bananas must be horrible if kept in the fridge-they need to be room temperature. I have 2 fruit bowls.

I have two:
the big green crackle-glazed habitat one has bananas, apples and kiwis in
the small, Miro-inspired hand-thrown one has spare keys, leads and a computer mouse in, as all fruit bowls should have.
DH purchased both, hence the poshness. I am more of a Wilkos/Woolies type myself.

chocolate is hidden in a kitchen cupboard between the soy sauce and the lea and perrins where no-one else looks. fridge-cold chocolate is perverse and pointless