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HOW TO KEEP A FRESH FRUIT BOWL
FRESH and BEAUTIFUL
With NO rot. NO mold. NO bruising. NO waste.
Sound impossible? I thought so too until I did this...
The secret is to mix real with fake. Just fill the bottom of the bowl with artificial fruit. Now before you decide I have the worst taste on earth, at least read this and look at the pictures.
I've been doing this for years and the fruit bowl always looks fresh, full, and pretty; you don't have to buy as much fresh fruit, and it saves those poor "bottom of the bowl" items from getting squished and/or forgotten.
If the image that comes to your mind is of shiny bright plastic fruit sprinkled with glitter or those neon-colored paper mache' numbers you get in Mexico, get over it and read on. . .
You can still get the laugh-out-loud fakes, or you can expand your horizons a bit and discover the new artificial fruits & vegetables that look SO REAL you often can't tell even by picking them up. They're made of polymers that look and feel like the real thing, complete with natural flaws, color variations - - some even have real stems. I promise you - if you can put aside your 1970s viewpoint long enough to just consider them new-fangled gitups fer sale nowadays, you'll love this trick! Take a look at the pictures. . .
Every bowl DOES contain some real fruit but no more than 3 or 4 pieces and only on the very top. And by the way, don't go thinking you can tell by the stickers that are on fresh fruit. I peel some of those off and stick 'em on the fakes. Haha! Fools them every time. . .
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Summer Variety
Nothing is real in this big bowl
except the bananas and tomatoes
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Yellow Bowl
Bananas and one apple are real
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Mixture of Green Fruits & Vegies
Nothing real except 2 avocados
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Cherries
Dark cherries are fakes; light real
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Christmas Bowl
Red apple, guava and one pear
are real. Everything else fake.
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Lemons & Oranges
3 of the lemons are real; nothing else.
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BUT WATCH OUT: There are some "Don'ts"! If you do this wrong you'll give away the secret and get a reputation of having "bad taste". We all know that would be the worst thing imaginable.
Bad Taste! Yikes! Avoid at all costs. . .
1) DON'T put the fruit bowl in unrealistic places, like the nursery, bathroom, a high shelf, or outside the front door. 2) DON'Tuse wrong-season fruits, like a big bowl of cranberries for your 4th of July picnic table. 3) DON'T make the size of your display unrealistic; a bushel basket-size bowl chock full of "fresh strawberries"? HA! Don't think so. 4) DON'T let the artificial fruit or the bowl get dusty. That's just wrong! 5) DON'T add things that don't belong, i.e., a cutesy glass "elf" or... the mail. NO! FRUIT ONLY!
6) DON'T put your fruit bowl together when your son is in kinder-garten and keep it there untouched until he graduates from high school. UGLY!
In other words, just treat it like you would real fruit. Move it around, change the varieties and containers; use real and fakes of the same kinds of fruit. A big bowl of colorful fresh fruit looks so pretty in the kitchen or on the table. Give it a try!
You'll love this trick.
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