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.....

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kitchen worktop here too

I don't have a dining table. Just a kitchen table (used for dining). Its usually on the kitchen table, but sometimes gets sidelined to a sideboard.
Its not mixed. Usually either bananas or apples. The other fruit I like are strawberries and raspberries and I keep those in the fridge.
Am sure I'm as common as they come ...

*paxillin Fri 16-Mar-18 16:14:56

Have I missed International Hyacinth Bucket Day?*

Brilliant

Our fruit bowl lives on the kitchen worksurface

I can honestly say I have never thought about this!

Ours is on the coffee table, where we look at it weekly until it goes in the bin. Perhaps if it was on the table we would eat more - we eat lunch at home most days so I might move it.

On the other hand, I have an antique glass cherry bowl that sits on the dining sideboard. That is full of Ferrero Rocher.

Is the distinction between ‘dining table’ and ‘kitchen table’ some sort of weird MN thing. I don’t know anyone who has two tables for eating dinner at.

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.

Worktop here. But no real reason why.

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.

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 microwave (hardly ever used)

expatinscotland
Who gives a flying fuck?

^ I think this about covers it.

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.

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 kitchen table.

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.

no

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!

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)

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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