My friend Liana’s mom loves to entertain, and she has lovely but also irreverent presentation ideas. On a recent visit, for dessert, she took some beautiful strawberries and just put them directly on the table, and took the pastries her guests had brought, and did the same thing.
I would definitely make my to eat/not to eat choice based on the rest of her house. It seems likely she is of “the floor clean enough to eat off” camp. So her strawberries would likely pass my lips. Strawberries presented similarly on my own kitchen table would be treated as toxic waste.