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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Ours migrates from sideboard to dining table to kitchen table depending on what's in use.
Grapes and berries go in the fridge though.
My parents have separate dishes for apples, citrus fruits, bananas, grapes and tomatoes. It's like a mini green grocers.

We don’t have one either, we have an industrial style cage/basket on the wall for bananas, potatoes etc and the rest lives in the fridge. Warm apples

I don't really like fruit except the odd strawberry, apple crumble and lime or lemon in my drink!

I keep fruit in the fridge hth

We have ours on the table. Easy to grab.
Good lord, am I common for having this as well ? I can't keep up.

Fruit bowl; what's that?

Bloody love a pear 🍐

I have two - one on the kitchen table with ready-to-eat fruit in it, and another on the bunker with stuff that needs peeled, with a banana thing over it.

There's a wooden nut bowl on the coffee table in the living-room, full of nuts bought about four Hallowe'ens ago but no-one ever ate. They look nice with the wood though, and look very autumnal with a couple of pomegranates thrown in.

Soft fruits go in the fridge, if not scoffed immediately on unpacking the shopping.

I think that makes me top class.

Common as muck here then😀
I have neither dining table nor kitchen table. My 2 fruit bowls are on kitchen worktop. And my bananas touch other fruit as they help ripen other stuff.
I will just have to live with the shame😶

So Nigella thinks mixed fruit is common but smoking spliffs with your kids and snorting coke isn’t? Ok then......Seriously why are some people so hung up on class and feeling superior. Just stick the fruit wherever it best fits in your own home!!

Oh god .

I have a vase of lemons at one end of the kitchen table and a fruit basket of clementines and a random pomegranate at the other . And a dresser full of Kilner jars . I’m feeling somewhat pretentious .

Ours is on the kitchen worktop. If we have lots of fruit, I add an extra one on the table. But it is a pain to move it all the time.

I reckon having fruit at all is middle-class enough.

Ours is on the dining table and it's stupid to be bothered about class

We are posh, we have fruit in the fruit bowl when no one is ill!

We tried a new variety of pear the other day. The “Angelys” which Internet tells me is a patented cross of French Doyenne pear varieties.

Good to eat (but still hardish) from the day they were bought and for a week after that. Instead of going from rock hard to rotten in the space of a day. I’m not a fan of pears but DH is and he was singing their praises.

Mine is usually in the breakfast base, but I move it off if we're all eating there (it fits five people).

If I have a pineapple I put it on the dining room table as it can be seen from the front door, down the hall.

I think the whole concept of "common" is a bit dated, but if anything it would be a bit more middle-class to keep it on the dining table, because that would imply that you regularly have fruit for pudding at meals themselves, not just as a snack. I've got a feeling "common" would be having something like Arctic roll most days!

Ours is on the kitchen worktop because toddlers. Tomatoes live in a high cupboard where the cat can't get them.

DH buys pomegranate from Asda so that creates a bit of a class dilemma. However, it’s OK because he’s forrin so usual class rules don’t apply.

DP & I have never had a fruit bowl. Growing up, my family were a bit skint, so fruit was 90% apples which would have looked a bit sad. Also, my DM had a downer on the concept as her own DM used to ban everyone from actually eating the fruit - it was there for decoration- to the point that it would sit there and rot.
Until recently we’v had a rat/ mouse problem, and much of what fruitbat DD eats is stuff like blueberries, so not practical for us anyway. Having a designated container might stop DP from losing stuff (only to be found later in boaktastic condition by me ), though.

Mines on a kitchen worktop, mainly because the table is in a sunny room and I thought the fruit might go off faster.

We keep ours in a practically catering size rectangular ceramic lasagne dish (we go through too much fruit for a bowl) on the worktop in the kitchen. All mixed in together, including avocados and tomatoes.

I do have a decorative bowl and a runner on my kitchen table though. They are budged up for breakfast and lunch and moved off for dinner.

Fruit in the fridge is all kinds of wrong.

Tastes best straight from the tree. When we are in France we buy enough for each day - usually sun warmed and perfect for eating.

A full fruit bowl looks divine. An emptying fruit bowl complete with shrivelled grapes looks awful. Therefore we don't have one.

My fruit bowl is on the kitchen worktop. I usually have fresh flowers on the table - tulips at this time of year - but my Christmas Poinsettia is still there refusing to die.

Kitchen worktop, but on because I'm too lazy to keep putting it on and off the table.