Fake fruit on the dining table? Tacky or tasteful?

[Honeycombe8]

A cream colored wide country bowl with fake fruit in it. Not WalMart fake fruit. More like Pottery Barn fake fruit.

Tacky or tasteful? Are you in the "If it's not real, why bother?" group, or in the "Hey, if it were real, it'd be smelly & rotten, so a nice folksy look, if the fruit really does look real" group? What say you?

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[moobu2]

1. I like good quality fake fruit myself.

[antiquie]

2. Ceramic or plastic or ?

I had a better response until I read your sigline.

[moobu2]

3. I have some 1950's Italian alabaster apples and grape clusters

that are pretty neat but I would probably go for some pottery ones too.

[Arugula Latte]

4. I think my parents had some fake fruit in the 70s.

Even then I remember thinking:

[Ter]

5. Option 3: For old people

[Trailrider1951]

15. Hell, I'm 61 and I'm not THAT old!

I voted tacky!

[pipi_k]

6. Hmmm...

don't know if it's tacky or tasteful, but it is practical, IMO.

Way better than a bowlful of rotten oranges, bananas, and apples attracting fruit flies and maggots.

Although, to be fair, apples last a while. Longer than oranges, and way longer than bananas.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

7. depends on the the quality of the fake fruit. same with the fake flowers.

[femmocrat]

13. Exactly. You can get nice looking fake fruit from some catalogs.

I have some wooden pears that look pretty nice, I think. And some cute ceramic pumpkins and gourds that I use in the fall.

Like I always say, Martha isn't coming here!

[RILib]

8. real gourds and squash

last for months, then you can cook and eat the squash.

[Honeycombe8]

11. Really? That sounds like a good alternate. Thx. I don't like flowers on dining tables...

but I wanted SOMETHING. The fruit arrangement seemed homey to me, and I love the ceramic wide platter they're in. But a friend hinted that fake fruit is, well, something SHE'D never use. I tried real fruit, but it gets rotten too fast. Apples will last, but I eat them.

[RILib]

20. butternut squash

I grew butternut squash a year or two ago and had enough to last all winter. They just sat around in my kitchen looking good for months. I'm not sure how this varies by type of squash.

[Honeycombe8]

23. I will try that. I didn't know they lasted that long. Thx. nt

[Rowdyboy]

9. It was fine in 1963....old in 1973 and totally passe in 1983....

and I haven't heard anything about a comeback!

[Honeycombe8]

10. That kinda says it all! :) Guess I need to rethink my fruit arrangement! nt

[Rowdyboy]

12. Meh. I've got an old house with some interesting antiques....

Let it stand for what it is. Who's it hurting? and if you enjoy it, the hell with anyone else!

[In_The_Wind]

14. If the fakes are artistically done instead of replicas it would be beautiful.

Have you ever watched someone try to bite a fake piece of fruit? I have.

[Denninmi]

16. Fine as long as you

Serve them with artificial sweeteners.

[Honeycombe8]

18. Reminds me of an I Love Lucy episode. She's starving while @ someone's house....

she's with Ricky. While the lady is leaves the room momentarily, lucy grabs one of the apples in a bowl on the table and chomps down, and promptly gets her teeth stuck in it. The apple is fake, and she's stuck with this fake apple in her mouth.

[Denninmi]

19. Poor Lucy.

She did get herself into some predicaments.

[duuser5822]

17. Very tacky

I've never understood the point of fake fruits, really.

[hopemountain]

21. the fake fruit on my grandma's table

had bite marks in it
a few years after she passed away, my aunt handed me a paper bag. in it was the purple glass grape cluster grandma had adorning her coffee table in the living room. still puzzled why auntie gave it to me - my grandma had 6 other grand daughters.

[tavernier]

22. Why???

Real fruit is cheaper and very good for you.