Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez addressed the attention surrounding her first garbage disposal experience on Tuesday by claiming that the kitchen appliances “never really became a thing” in the city.
Ocasio-Cortez, 29, posted an Instagram story on Monday that chronicled the first time she used the device in her new Washington D.C. pad.
“This DC apartment is bougie and has things I’ve never seen before. Like what is a garbage disposal really for,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in the caption.
“Is this what social mobility is? Using kitchen appliances you never saw growing up?”
Social media reacted in disbelief, with some claiming Ocasio-Cortez was faking her working class credentials.
But as the freshman congresswoman pointed out, the appliance had been banned in the city until 1997.
“They were illegal in NYC for a long time and never really became a thing after the ban was lifted,” she wrote on Twitter Tuesday.
“Other home things many NYers don’t have in their apartments: washer/dryer, dishwasher, central air. (Saving up for a portable dishwasher was one of the best things we did).”
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