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

Our fruit bowl's a Villeroy and Boch one, and it sits on the dining table, not sure what that says about us?! Does it make a difference that it's not in a dining room as such, as the table's in the kitchen/family room? I never knew this was a thing.

Oh, and the bowl's always full as I have 3 fruit bats for children, and if it's not filled constantly I'd be worried they'd start to gnaw at the table itself. So we'd be common and table-less.

Surely it should be in the kitchen with all the other food? If your ‘dinibg’ Table is in the kitchen then you hatcwpuld be a kitchen table and is fine (albeit annoying surely?)

Mine lives on the dining table because it's where the most available space is. The table is large enough to seat 8 without having to remove the bowl. It does however, live in the conservatory if we are using the table for anything other than eating.

But really, who cares?

On dining table which is in the kitchen. I think it should always be in the kitchen. Beyond that not fussed.

On the dresser in the dining room.

Fruit bowl on the dining table, and we eat all meals at the dining table. I just move the fruit bowl up from the middle to the end of the table when I lay the table. We have a 6/8 seater table,though and a family of 4, so plenty of room for us and a fruit bowl.

I'm not aware that where the fruit bowl goes is a class signifier at all. Dining room table seems the most sensible place for it to live, although I also have one in the kitchen.

Fruit belongs in the fridge, except bananas which you sling in whatever cupboard you can find. Otherwise it becomes clutter.

I don't have a fruit bowl. Well I do, but it's full of random crap like pencil sharpeners and happy meal toys. All my fruit is in the fridge.

Ours lives in the microwave to keep it away from the mice...

Ours is on the sideboard in the dining room next to the banana tree

Who gives a flying fuck?

I thought you meant common as in popular.

We have one, yes. It isn't full of fruit though.

Ours is on a sideboard in the dining room.

Luckily I don’t have a hubby and my boyfriend doesn’t mind where the fruit bowl is located.

Oh, I like a bit of MN 'commoner anxiety', come on then, let's be having all the trivial ways that you set yourself apart from the unwashed masses...

If I put my fruit bowl on our tiny fold out dining table there would be no room for our dinner.

Ours is on the coffee table. I wouldnt have it on the dining table as the kids would forget it was there and the fruit wouldnt get eaten, but thats the only reason. I cant say I have ever considered it but no, I dont think it is particularly common.

Is sideboard common or not?

I grew up in a household where it was frowned upon to say 'serviette', 'toilet', 'settee' or 'lounge'. There was no shame surrounding the placement of the fruit bowl.

We don't have a fruit bowl we have a fruit drawer in the fridge. I like my fruit cold .

I'm so common I don't have a dining table.

Never mind a fruit bowl, Nigella Lawson likes to keep all kinds of fruit separate and even have black and white grapes on different plates, and she's pretty posh. She calls it 'institutional' to have a mixed bowl, for which read 'common'.

My fruit is all cheerfully mixed together, sometimes with some renegade veg too. It's only not on the table because the table is too cluttered. It's on a sort of side unit/storage thing in the kitchen.

PS I am from a common-as-muck background.

Yes, unashamedly so. It should be on your breakfast bar, unwrapped, washed and with any labels removed.

As other's have pointed out, 'hubby' has already given you away, you are fooling nobody.

(Alternatively and realistically, you should put it wherever people are most likely to see it and eat some fruit rather than occasionally wondering what that smell is and then noticing all the fruit is rotting, throwing it away and buying some more which is what happens in our house )

Have I missed International Hyacinth Bucket Day?