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 is on the sideboard but soft fruit is in the fridge. I have lots of satsumas to snack on as in Slimming world though not sure they count if they are preceded by a chunk of cheese and followed by a few crisps!

I have two fruit bowls. One is in pieces after it got dropped, and I love it (it came from my favourite pottery in Portugal) so can't bear to part with it even though I suspect it won't repair. It's currently stacked in bits on the kitchen worksurface. It has been there about 7 months. No fruit currently resides within.

The actual in-use fruit bowl is on another kitchen work surface, next to the microwave. It contains, from memory, a couple of shrivelled apples, a bag of walnuts and a black banana. The rest of the fruit is in the fridge WHERE IT BELONGS.

I suspect if I were properly posh and old-fashioned, I'd have a fruit bowl on a sideboard in the dining room. With absolutely no lego in. Or perhaps, no fruit bowl at all? I think that might be the new-fashioned posh way. Nigella is arriviste and odd adherent of Fruit Apartheid.

Great thread stunt fruit I need stunt fruit! In my bowl which is situated on the kitchen worktop.

My colleague once brought in a fruit bowl for a meeting with a quince in it. Which was purely there to help the other fruit (ripen/ not ripen I’m not sure ).

Ours is on the kids' toy kitchen with bananas hanging from the metal hooks. Kids eat fruit so I'm happy and don't care if people judge me as common

Is the distinction between ‘dining table’ and ‘kitchen table’ some sort of weird MN thing.

For us, the dining table is in the dining room, and the kitchen table is in the kitchen.

A fruit bowl full stop is common. I only eat in season fruit that comes directly off my trees or bushes. All GM free............

Actually kitchen bench until it wrinkles, then the bin.

And have old lady crystal fruit bowl- cause it was bought for me by an old lady. Thing weighs a bloody ton. Wouldn’t want to move it as I’d put my back out 😂😂😂

@GlomOfNit have you ever heard of kintsugi? It's the (Japanese) art of repairing treasured broken pottery objects with gold (I think it's like a resin with gold powder or something like that). It is supposed to honour the history of the object and add to its beauty. They sell kits to do it yourself, you can mend cracks and fill missing chunks with it x

Ours is on the hall sideboard, my favourite one is made from a single piece of wood that's cut in a spiral way and forms a bowl when lifted by the handle, otherwise it's flat.

Ours lives on top of the fridge because if the dc see it, they demand fruit. We already have to limit them to 3 pieces a day. So it will never be on any table!

Kitcjen windowsill, purely because its freezing there and saves me.putting fruit in the fridge.

It used to be on the kitchen table in the dining room 😂😂 however I got sick of moving it every mealtime

fruit bowl is on the kitchen coubter - filled with random pens, kids crap and stuff from pockets.

Fruit lives I in the fridge.

A fruit bowl? We keep fruit in different areas. Bananas in the pantry. Oranges lemons limes on the cocktail bar. Berries in the freezer. Apples plums and satsumas in the fridge to be removed to warm to room temp on a daily basis. I think fruit bowls promote fruit going off quickly, and possibly unnoticed such that you occasionally dip your hand INTO a piece of decomposed fruit.

My fruit bowl sits on the window sill in the dining room, common as muck me

This thread has reminded me of my childhood. I was brought up by my nan in a 2 up 2 down. We only ever had fruit if someone was ill. She didn't have a fruit bowl. It lived in the brown paper bag it came in from the greengrocer. Ive just had warm fuzzies at the memory.

The dining table is used for Friday dinners only. It seats 16. During the week it houses a lovely table runner from Jerusalem, and a lovely bowl that hold sweets. This is in the dining room/library/music room. (It is also used as a work surface and often has books and screens covering the entire surface due to ‘research’).

Kitchen table seats 6. Which is useful as we have 4 children and 2 adults living here. Fruit bowl does not live here because it would constantly need to move because of fitting homework, breakfast, school lunchboxes.

Therefore fruit bowl lives in one of the open sections in an ikea expedit that makes up a part of our kitchen cabinetry. Only 2 children appear to know where it is - luckily both eat much fruit. Grapes and berries live in the fridge.

[for those wondering, we have a third table, which seats 8, on the patio area outside the kitchen door. I recently turned it so that it faces east-west because 3 I felt sure that the poodle was judging me for having the tables lined up along the same axis. This table is outdoors and fruit would be eaten by the possums that like to steal the mandarins and apples from our trees just as they begin to ripen.]

Fruit bowl sits on the kitchen island - encourages everyone to take some when they walk past. Most meals are in the kitchen/family room. Dinning room is only used when there are lots of family/guests or special occasions.

Do you mean common is the sense that it's a popular thing to do? Or do you mean it in the derogatory sense?

My fruit bowl is a wooden one my parents were gifted as a wedding present in 1972 so it's ultra out of fashion retro. I love it. My mum loves that we use it. It sits on the coffee table in the living room. Common as muck us.

Oh goodness gracious, we don't have a fruit bowl! We simply go outside into the orchard and pick it fresh, or more often than not, have the gardener collect it on our behalf.

Hi

TBH, I don't like clutter on the dining table.

I always put the ketchup, etc away and pile up the placemats.

I think it reminds me of Coronation Street, Sally, always had her sauces out all day.....

And like someone else said, Pauline, from Eastenders.

Ketchup on the table!! Sits shaking head clutching pearls 😂

Cleanermaidcook

Please dont laugh - my son has ketchup with everything even his toast in the morning!

Although I do decant it into a small crystal bowl for him (LOL, not really).

I realise I may have reached peak MN with this choice

Not to worry - you're in good company.

My fruitbowl is a sterling silver plated punch bowl. It's huge so I also keep vegetables in it.

It could serve double duty to bath small children, I suppose, should I ever subscribe to the nonsense that having a fruitbowl is common.