quick question for US people: garbage disposals

[dichroic]

After my last entry, Maria asked if garbage disposals are universal in the US. I said that to my knowledge they are nearly so – I’ve lived in Philadelphia, Houston, Phoenix and now Portland and have cooked in a few other places, everywhere from tiny towns to big cities, small apartments to big houses, and only one shared house I lived in as a student didn’t have one. Marveen disagreed, saying that she’s rarely had one and doesn’t know anyone who does. (I think she’s somewhere in the PNW.)

What say the rest of you? What places you’ve lived have or have not had them?

Mirrored from Dichroic Reflections.

Comments

[wordweaverlynn]

I agree about the sewer/septic system dichotomy, except that only newer city houses or apartments have them, or else ones that have been modernized. Here in California many houses have them, because they're generally newer houses. Back east I only ever had one -- certainly not growing up, nor in the various apartments I rented before and after my marriage (usually in old hoses converted to apartments). Of the three houses my husband and I owned, only one had one. The other houses were in the country and had septic systems.