She may not approve of growing them in community gardens, but Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez didn't have a problem with cauliflower when she served them in a Mexican restaurant in 2017 before joining the world of politics.

The firebrand Democrat stoked ridicule on Wednesday after saying that planting cauliflower in community gardens where people of color live is 'taking a colonial approach to environmentalism'.

Instead, plants like yucca - which thrive in dry, hot climates and are 'culturally significant' - should go in their place, she said.

She was bombarded by astonished Twitter users who said the comment showed she has 'gone past the point of being stupid' and others who pointed that contrary what she may believe, cauliflower is a popular choice among many cuisines.

DailyMail.com has since discovered that Flats Fix, the Union Square restaurant in NYC where AOC slung margaritas before she launched her political career, offers a $4.75 roasted cauliflower and humus taco special.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez worked as a bartender at Flats Fix in Union Square where cauliflower tacos are a popular choice on the menu. She is shown before abandoning the job for politics

The roasted cauliflower and hummus special tacos cost $4.75

The $4.75 cauliflower taco at Flats Fix is shown. AOC did not reply to inquiries about her remarks on Wednesday

Cauliflower is also one of the options for its veggie taco.

The vegetable is abundant in Mexican supermarkets and has been included in Latino cookbook recipes since the early 19th Century.

In the Bronx, where AOC grew up, cauliflower is served as a side dish at Dominican restaurants and it's a popular vegetarian or vegan substitute in meat and fajitas at others.

Her remarks about the vegetable stunned critics and led to a barrage of ridicule.

Ocasio-Cortez had filmed herself in a community garden after planting harvesting Swiss chard, spinach and collard greens, saying: 'What I love too is growing plants that are culturally familiar to the community. It's so important.

'A core component of the Green New Deal is having all of these projects make sense in a cultural context, and it's an area that we get the most pushback on because people say, "Why do you need to do that? That's too hard."

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 29, walked around her native New York as she discusses how community gardens were central to her Green New Deal

Baffled: Twitter users questioned her comments and ridiculed her for them

'But when you really think about it, when someone says that it's "too hard" to do a green space that grows yucca instead of, I don't know, cauliflower or something - what you're doing is you're taking a colonial approach to environmentalism.

'And that is why a lot of communities of color get resistant to certain environmentalist movements because they come with the colonial lens on them.'

Some said she had gone beyond the pale by suggesting that growing a certain type of plant could be racist.

'But we eat potatoes in Latin America.. and cauliflower?' one Twitter user said.