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

Ours is on the kitchen table but we had to take the chairs away because DN, DN and Dd2 decided to climb up and sit on the table rather than the chairs and I got fed up removing yelling at DD while DSis ignored her two. Yes I realise the fruit bowl is the least of my problems

I've a stainless steel thing for fruit (hardly used). I have broken two gawgus Dartington fruit/trifle bowl thingies. Nought an even more gawjus trifle/fruit bowl thingy from the charity shop last week. Al cut crystal. £4

Fruit bowl location is indicative of nothing. Using the word 'common' however - that's rather vulgar.

We have a metal flower bowl from Ikea currently with four bags of apples in it, (which should last about a week) on our dining table. Low enough that even our youngest can reach it.

I got rid of my fruit bowl because it seemed pointless when I buy a bunch of bananas occasionally to mash for the baby, or pre cut fruit when out. We eat lots of veg but not really a fruit household.

Lower class

oh dear god, just ut the fruit where someone might actually eat it. Most of ours moulders in the fruit bowl next to the toaster other than bananas which are disguised in their porridge every morning. The number of bullet like limes and mush ridden avocados and pears is like a fruit/vegetable genocide in our house

We have a bloody ginormous 4 or 5 tier fruit rack and it lives in the kitchen! Anyone who wants fruit gets off their butt and goes and gets it!

bobstersmum I had one of those in my kitchen, until I noticed that every piece had a tiny bite mark in, even the potatoes and onions ! ( my little grandchildren )

Is 'fruit bowl' a euphemism?

If it means the place where you keep raw unpeeled fruit, then we keep it wherever's handy and not too hot. Ours shifts from the table where we normally eat meals to somewhere else if it gets too warm, or if we have too many people/too many dishes on the table to leave room for it. Ideally we like to leave it around so people can help themselves in between meals. Don't GAF whether it's 'common' but it's fairly natural to us to do what feels convenient and I imagine that is not uncommon practice. Heavens, we even sometimes have a pineapple in ours because we're going to eat it shortly and it will be too cold in the fridge.

When entertaining royalty YMMV.

“I heard Nigella opine that mixed fruit in a bowl was not the done thing”

Should I ever take advice about food storage from someone with multiple kitchens? I keep mine fresh in the fridge, and cut up bowls of variety for the kids, which means I’m less likely to find half-eaten stuff days later under the sofa 😌

Is ‘hubby’ considered posh or common? To me it sounds posh!

"Hubby" is considered awful by all right-minded people. It has nothing to do with class, though. It's just a terrible abuse of the English language, and those who use it should be consigned to a circle of hell with people who say "holibobs" and "haitch".

Haha story nanny!

Nigellas fruit bowl beliefs:
Honestly it was the last book of hers I looked at without great cynicism. I was red pilled ( is that the right cultural reference?) by her fruit bowl totalitarianism.

No-one in their right mind say "hubby."

But really, proof that one is common is worrying about whether one is common.

It's common to worry about what's common. Proper posh dont do that.

Nigella claims to eat puddings and pies at midnight. Perhaps if the fruit in the fruit bowl was crystalised and chocolate coated she would feel differently?

Because if you're proper posh whatever you do is right. This is my approach.

The background story is sad imo.

She writes well though; just don't rely on her baking recipes as I did some odd things happened and I wasn't a beginner iyswim.

Nigellas recipes are often inedible and I can usually rescue/adjust dodgy recipes. Its all show.

Odd, none of the recipes I've tried have been bad.

This was how to be a domestic goddess iirc and there was press coverage to reassure me it wasn't just me. Baking usually has to be precise and needs unambiguous recipes.

I have fake fruit in mine and keep real fruit in the fridge

We keep ours on the kitchen side

Lawson writes about cooking; she is not a gifted cookbook writer. Nor is she a particularly celebrated cook. It's all glamour, dahling.