I’m 63. Never had a garbage disposal in a home I owned, never wanted one. Had one in an apartment decades ago.
I wonder too, but honestly, I think she is legitimately dumb. You just get a sense from the way somebody talks and acts. But if she’s acting dumb then give her an Oscar! She nailed it.
Marjorie Taylor Greene was absolutely right.
Here’s proof of Nazi leaders’ penchant for gazpacho. It’s obvious what’s in that giant tureen.
And Hitler was a vegetarian. It all fits.
Lovely centerpiece. Proto Martha Stewart, or something.
Before we get too harsh on D’Anconia here, let’s recap. We got three people here:
- A member of congress who, in attempting to call someone a Nazi because they support public health measures, accidentally calls them cold soup.
- A member of congress who wryly and self-deprecatingly illustrates her social mobility with her first encounter with a “bougie” appliance.
- A member of this board who can’t recognize the difference between self-aware humor and mistaking Nazis for cold soup.
Can we at least agree that all three are pretty funny?
I can agree to that. 
She always does. Can I dedicate her to you? The gazpacho updating will follow in due time, I can’t be bored* right now.
* Ah, mis-typo’d
Yeah, garbage disposals aren’t very common in Canada, either. I’ve never seen one in real life, and just seeing them on TV makes me shudder at the thought of them. I’ve seen enough accidents with things like power tools to wonder why anyone would want to install one in their kitchen, where kids could play with it any time they wanted. That’s insane!
It seems an over-the-top “solution” to a “problem” that I’ve solved my entire life by just having a garbage can in the kitchen.
Now that I think about it though, that sounds just perfectly American.
We had a garbage disposal until I ran it with a fork in it. Then we didn’t have one anymore.
As a lifelong user of garbage disposals, I can assure you, nobody is going to stick their hand down a slimy garbage disposal unless they absolutely have to.
I generally think of politicians as being far more evil than stupid.
My best guess on MTG and Lauren Boebert (to point to just two) is that they’re much closer to being both.
Never had one either. My mother was rather ……militant about it. Something about them fostering vermin and rodent problems in the sewer system.
I knew what they were though, mostly because my mother hated them so much.
I get what happened to AOC though. You have a “mystery switch” in your new home, you flip it and a loud grinding noise comes from the general vicinity of the sink. That would be startling, and it’s a funny story.
At least for Boebert, she is exactly like those in her district. And if that’s the case, then isn’t she the perfect Representative?
your mother was quite correct. there is a much happier and healthier rodent population in areas with a high concentration of garbage disposals.
think smoothies for rats.
I have one now, it came with the house. (I never encountered one in the U.K.) I always thought it was just there so that your drain line did not get accidentally clogged with small gobbets of residual food when you’re washing plates and pans. Do people really deliberately dump substantial amounts of waste food into it? Why? What is the advantage of pushing food waste into a little hole and then pressing a button to grind it, when everyone surely has a regular garbage can with a much bigger hole nearby that seems like a much easier place to throw your garbage?
Trying to paint MTG and AOC as intellectual equals is an astounding error in judgment.
Believe it or not, some municipalities that have methane co-generation tied to their sewage plants are asking that MORE food waste go down the dispose-all instead of into the landfill.
That’s all I ever used one for.
For some reason my mother (blessings be upon her, and peace) insisted that the potato peelings on Thanksgiving be run down the disposal. Which meant that one of the holiday rituals was the Unclogging of the Kitchen Drain, a cast-iron pipe which had developed significant atherosclerosis over the years.
And people wonder why Thanksgiving is my least favorite holiday.
I, too, only use it in this role.