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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I moved ours from the dining table (which is in the conservatory now, having been moved from the dining area) as everyone was forgetting it was there & the fruit was going bad. Now it's on a side table in the living room and the DC are back to their usual fruit munching ways now it's back in their vision & they have free access to it again.

Hubby has it wrong. My DH informs me fruit should not be on the dining table in a bowl because it should always be prepared for serving. I asked DMiL about this and she says that rule was to stop her 5 DCs emptying the bowl before she could fill it.

My Grannie would be appalled at all the people keeping fruit in the fridge growing tasteless. She was in service and was also of the opinion that fruit should be prepared rather than grabbed from the fruit bowl - mind you she also had 6 DC.

I'm aghast at the idea of keeping apples and oranges in the fridge. My sensitive teeth are on edge at the very thought of biting into something fridge cold. Our fruit bowl is usually on the table. On the odd occasion we're going to have a posh meal with serving dishes on the table the fruit bowl gets moved onto the dresser to make room.

We also have a bowl on the dresser with tomatoes in it, and avocadoes when we have any. Tomatoes need to be at room temperature. Avocadoes ditto, so that they can ripen. Once ripe they can go in the fridge.

Pears have to be at room temperature too, on the offchance that I spot the five minute period when they're perfectly ripe but not overripe. Of course I usually miss this, but if they stayed in the fridge they'd be like turnips to the end of time.

I prefer apples straight from the fridge. They’re crunchier that way.

It goes in the fridge otherwise my house would be littered with apples with a single bite taken out and half eaten bananas 🤢

People have two tables? A dining and a kitchen one? How do you decide which one to eat at?

Do not invite anyone into your home who you expect might judge you due to where you keep your fruit bowl.

Words to live by.

Kitchen counter

Mines on the kitchen counter

If you were properly common you wouldn't have a fruit bowl at all - try harder.

Sooo funny! Ours is on the windowsill - what do you think of that!!

I have two tables! Kitchen table for maximum three people and cooking. Dining room table for 4+, also for assisted homework, craft, laptops, paperwork and admin, board games, general dumping ground...

Our (huge, heavy, footed, artfully arranged and well stocked) fruit bowl stays in the kitchen and it’s the youngest person’s job to wash and bring everybody’s choice to the table.

Trills
Good point

This thread should be is it lower middle class to have the fruit bowl on the dining table.

Obviously, if someone is below lower middle class then any fruit bowl would only be used for microwave chip containers and as an ice bucket for alcopops.

It is common to know where in your house fruit is stored. If you were properly posh your staff would take care of this for you.

Mine is in the kitchen, but only because it would get too hot on the dining table which gets the sun on it a lot.
My husband wants to keep fruit in the fridge, I said no.

I can’t really imagine that anyone gives any thought to where someone keeps their fruit bowl. Unless they keep it in the bathroom, I suppose.

Why are pears so horrible now? they used to be my favourite fruit as a child, they have changed totally, who wants a hard, crunchy pear?

In an office job years ago we went through a stage of having fruit bowls on our desks and used to pop to the local market to stock up. It was lovely. (Just to distract us from the biscuit tin). All fine until my colleague came in one day and found rodent sized chunks taken out of her pears.

Ours is on the dining table to prevent dogs eating all the apples.

I hate fruit bowls, full-stop. I associate them with fruit getting dusty and warm and starting to smell. I keep fruit in the fridge.

On the side in the kitchen.
A - so bananas are to hand when I do DS lunch box every morning (otherwise I'd forget)
Bread - so when the less popular oranges go manky they only drip in the side and not onto the wooden dining table (it's a wire basket)

Unless I've got 'new' friends coming round. Then I buy a pineapple and put the fruit bowl on the specially decluttered dining table....

• B not Bread....

My fruit bowl sits in the centre of the dining table. However it contains no fruit, only fun sized choc bars and Cadbury hero's. 😋😋

ginch try M&S williams pears - life changing!

We have a fruit bowl on the kitchen counter. I keep all fruit in it except grapes and all berries - they live in the fridge as they go mouldy too quickly.

Our fruit bowl currently has 4 lemons, 2 limes, bunch of fun size bananas, 3 pears, 2 apples.

It frequently has melon, satsumas, avocados, grapefruit

I love a well stocked fruit bowl!

I don't think M&S can be beaten for consistently good quality fruit

I keep my fruit in the fridge 😱