GLC is ‘required reading’ at MIT

April 22, 2005August 28, 2009
In the media, The GLC

To those of you who doubt the greatness of this site, please note that the Grocery List Collection is required reading for MIT’s “Social Visualization” OpenCourseWare class (see “SES #7”). So there.

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This is the world's largest collection of found grocery lists. In fact, we wrote the book on found grocery lists.

Why? Other peoples' grocery lists are fascinating. Plus, the internet is a great place to do ~~stupid~~ interesting things. So far 3,800 funny, crazy, weird, sad and/or mundane discarded scraps of paper have been posted. But it's not all useless stuff—we also link to useful and interesting articles about food, shopping, lists, collecting, and more, as well as provide a pretty awesome downloadable PDF grocery list for free.