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

[viiswi]

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.....

x

One of my fruit bowls is so huge i can't fit it on my kitchen surface. I brought it back from Marrakech and it's probably the visual definition of my liberal middle class wankery.

If you were a proper family who ate every meal at the table, you'd find moving it three times a day too much of a hassle. .. you mean you don't have a table big enough to accomodate a fruit bowl and your family seated to eat? [scoffs]

Our fruit bowl is always empty as the only fruit I eat is free from the work 'healthy station' .. I'd rather fill it with crisps / nuts.

Hi

Our table is an 8 seater, although there are only 5 of us.

I'd be worried everyone would pile their crap in the bowl......as a quick tidy up

I think being ‘common’ would mean no fruit in the house but with numerous massive bottles of Coke on the table.

However our fruit is in the peninsula in the kitchen diner - although in a V&B bowl.

So far on the thread we have had not only where do you keep your fruit bowl, but what you keep in it too.
I'm just waiting for someone to post their party guests car keys 😉

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

That's hysterical. lol.

x

Never eat fruit. Too much sugar!

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

On the dining table!

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!

The fish not the fruit bowl!

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.

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

Mine is also a junk drawer fruit bowl

Dining room table

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

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.

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.

You all have fruit bowls?!!

I hate cold fruit straight out the fridge 😖