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12 May 2012

What's in your fruit bowl? I bet it's not all fruit! You're one of the most diverse and interesting groups of people I know, so chances are there's going to be some cool stuff! I'll go first...→[More:]I have three mandarins, a dodgy apple, two wooden clothes pegs, a tap washer, a random piece of plastic thingy that is clearly important but I have no idea where it's from, and an old envelope with a recipe for dutch butter cookies on it. And dust. A heartbreaking amount of dust.

post by: ninazer0 at: 17:50 | 18 comments

Apples, pears, bananas, oranges, plums and a few grapes which I am just about to eat. In the fridge is mango, strawberries, blueberries, raspberry, pineapple and kiwi. In a bag on the kitchen floor is a watermelon. I eat loads of fruit.

posted by Senyar 12 May | 17:57

It's not a bowl, it's a basket, and up until last Thursday it contained six big mangoes.
On Thursday, they were cut-up into little cubes and frozen, in preparation for my making chutney for Christmas gifts.

posted by Thorzdad 12 May | 18:10

Fruit in a bowl? Mine is in the freezer in small useful chunks.

posted by Splunge 12 May | 18:32

I've got three fruit bowls/baskets. The first has bananas, peaches, apples, and apricots. The second has garlic, lemons and avocados. The third is filled with seed packets for this season's garden which I should have planted a week ago.

posted by fancyoats 12 May | 18:47

I also have three bowls (so I can separate different types of fruit). They're all empty. For a vegetarian, I have a lousy diet ...
On the plus side, it's been a while now since the dogs raided the stacked veggie baskets in the kitchen. Sweet potatoes, an eggplant, and a stack of courgettes (zucchini) are all tucked up safe. Although the carrots have to be shut up in a canine-proof refrigerator. Heaven forfend that they develop opposable thumbs.

posted by Susurration 12 May | 19:58

good intentions

posted by Pips 12 May | 22:10

Hmmm..when I asked this question on Facebook, many people had odd things like babies dummies and so forth tucked in with the gala apples and so on. Interesting...

posted by ninazer0 13 May | 01:01

Bananas. My fruit bowl is shaped like a fish, though.

posted by JanetLand 13 May | 08:46

Alas, just (organic CSA-share) fruit.

posted by tortillathehun 13 May | 10:31

An avocado, two tomatoes, a sweet potato that never made it to the kitchen counter, and two cookie cutters that went on walkabout and ended up in the fruit basket.

That's the fruit basket. Our fruit bowl, which was an old wooden salad bowl, spontaneously split in two this week. Right down the middle.

posted by Elsa 13 May | 10:45

I don't have a fruit bowl. But I am terribly impressed by Senyar's list and I need to go to the store.

Also holy cow Thorzdad already planning Christmas gifts.

posted by Glinn 13 May | 12:29

Green apple, half a bag of panko, little packets of soy sauce that I can't bare to throw out cause I might have a SOY EMERGENCY

posted by The Whelk 13 May | 14:03

Hey don't laugh, I had a HOT MUSTARD EMERGENCY today. Two lovely pastrami eggrolls and no hot mustard. A few of those crappy mustard packets would have come in handy.

posted by Splunge 13 May | 15:11

We also have three baskets (a hanging three tiered thingie). In the top basket is (are?) a few yellow onions and a few clumps of garlic. In the middle basket is a bunch of red onions and one tomato. In the bottom basket is a bunch of Granny Smith apples and three or four bananas.

posted by deborah 13 May | 16:23

Fruit bowl #1: Reading glasses, a shopping list, and a coupon for a trial pair of contacts.

Fruit bowl #2: a dead Blackberry (the phone, not the fruit), several inferior light bulbs from Ikea, a remote control for the garage door opener, and three tensor bandages.

I do have some (under-ripe) kiwi on my kitchen counter, and I have lots of blueberries, cranberries, peaches, raspberries and strawberries in the freezer.

posted by maudlin 13 May | 16:24

Apples, mangoes (on sale), avocadoes (on sale), some shallots, a red onion, potatoes. There were artichokes in the fridge; now they are on the counter, waiting for the water to boil.

posted by theora55 13 May | 18:22

I was selling homemade whistles today in a basket. It doesn't quite count but you're looking for non-fruit things so I thought I'd share. I was also selling doodles, and made enough to earn me a nice pair of sandals.

And holy cow I just read this story of his hit-and-run in March 2000 and it's quite a story.

posted by aniola 13 May | 21:34

I have a collection of soft mesh colanders which I keep in a cabinet and deploy as needed, so there isn't a permanent bowl on the counter to collect random stuff. Right now I do have a colander of lemons on hand; everything else is in the refrigerator except for the alliums, which are hiding out in the dark pantry.

Alas, no tangerines.

posted by tangerine 14 May | 10:33

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