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Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and Found [Hardcover]

Bill Keaggy (Author)
3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)


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Book Description

April 24, 2007
Cabich, bird fude, nodiles, buttmilk, dog yogurt, bannes, hare sope, cream of salary soup.

What do these things have in common? They're all items from real grocery lists. Whose lists? Who knows. The lists were found discarded in shopping carts, dropped on supermarket floors and parking lots, even tucked in returned library books. But the fact that they were discarded is not what's interesting about them. It's that they were found - found and/or collected by Bill Keaggy, proprietor of Grocerylists.org and the author of the world's first compilation of lost grocery lists. This book.

If we are what we eat, then this book reveals deep and strange truths about the average food shopper (not to mention more mundane facts like a lot of people love vodka, banana is actually very difficult to spell and that butter used to be dyed yellow using marigolds).

Separated into chapters - funny lists, sad lists, unhealthy lists, organized lists - the book also includes humorous commentary by the author and some delicious recipes created from found grocery lists. Quirky sidebars and odd food facts round out the menu.

*Translation: Cabbage, bird food, noodles, buttermilk, dog yogurt (duh), bananas, shampoo, cream of celery soup.



Editorial Reviews

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"The Grocery List Collection is compulsive reading." -- The New York Times, 2007

"a unique voyeuristic delight" -- ESPN Radio, 2007

"hilarious" -- mental_floss, 2007

"jaw dropping, mercilessly snarky" -- The Tampa Tribune, 2007

"laugh-out-loud pleasure" -- BookPage, 2007

From the Inside Flap

FROM THE AUTHOR
"These found grocery lists are rare specimens. I have a collection from around the world that numbers in the thousands, but it has taken years of hunting and gathering. People are very protective of their grocery lists. I call it selective littering. Seems most folks would sooner dump their car ashtray in the grocery's parking lot or toss a week's worth of soda cans and fast food bags on the ground outside the store (and they do) rather than leave their list in a shopping card. It's because grocery lists are supposed to be private. Never mind that all of us have to go through the checkout in public. Our lists are supposed to be private, and that's why it's so enjoyable to look through them -- unless one of the lists happen to be yours."

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 240 pages
  • Publisher: HOW (April 24, 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1581809417
  • ISBN-13: 978-1581809411
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.5 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #649,256 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Bill Keaggy is a collector, maker and breaker of things. Originally from Ohio, he lives in St. Louis, Missouri with his wife Diane, and children Liam and Sorena. He likes found objects, photography, sandwiches, smoothies, design, collecting, family, bikes, books, Pinot Noir, people falling down, bowling, horseshoes and teh Intar-Web.

A complete archive of his projects can be found here: http://www.keaggy.com

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews
24 of 24 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
How often do you drop your used shopping lists into the shredder? I would expect you would reply, "Never". And because of this, Milk Eggs Vodka: Grocery Lists Lost and Found, by Bill Keaggy, was born.

I was just walking by a bookshelf when my eyes lingered for an extra second on this book. I think my first impression was that it was a cookbook by some over-the-hill rock stars... I mean, milk, eggs, and vodka? But where was the subtitle, "Meatloaf's/Pink Floyd's/Grand Funk's roadie cookbook."

Then I caught the real subtitle: "Grocery Lists Lost and Found."

It was intriguing enough that I picked it up off the shelf.

This was a really entertaining collection of real shopping lists, with the wrinkles and creases, the torn edges, the use of scrap paper, the misspellings, and America's diet (there is a reason obesity rates are on the rise) all laid out in their glory.

There is enough of a collection that at least one of these discarded lists will look familiar.

Is it yours?

Fine literature these lists, and this book, are not. However, the collection was interesting to peruse, and I'll bet this would be a great icebreaker at a party (take turns trying to read the lists on each page... "hookers and blow"?). This book would also be a great present for that friend or family member with that good sense of humor.

Now that I've read Milk Eggs Vodka, I suspect I will pay a bit closer attention to what I write down on that scrap of newspaper. After all, Bill Keaggy may be the next person to use my grocery cart.
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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful
really funny May 20, 2007
Format:Hardcover
Just got my copy of this one a few days ago. Really very funny. The book covers all manner of grocery lists, from those filled with dreadful mispellings (my lord, our education system is in the toilet), to the totally absurb. That someone actually made a list consisting of stamps, fish and "undies" is pretty funny. There's another with cellophane, garlic bread, butter, eggs, hookers and blow. Makes you wonder what kind of party they were having.... There's also a great deal of commentary from the author on food facts and our peculiar list-making obsessions. I think another reason why the book is so cool is the look and feel of it. Some books are just so nicely designed you want to own them for that aspect of their appeal alone. This one certainly measures up to that standard. The design reminds me a bit of Post Secret. The content is, as noted in another review, similar to what you'll find in Found (which I also have). But personally Milk Eggs Vodka made me laugh a lot more than Found did. Maybe it was the focus of the material or the author's sense of humor, or my own quirks, I'm not sure. A good time, regardless.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Funny November 1, 2007
Format:Hardcover
Bill Keagy shares his love of the unusual, your discard shopping list. At his website and his book, Milk Eggs Vodka, we get to see what some people are shopping for, as well as Keagy's humorous commentary. It is completely amazing to see the misspellings and how our own shopping list can be seen as a source of amusement for others. This book is funny and irreverent and worth taking a peek.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
Super Funny!
My husband and I flip though this at night and we giggle ourselves to sleep! It's super funny and an interesting look into the minds of strangers.
Published 19 days ago by 1down5upgeargirl
So funny...
This book is so funny. I saw the author on one or the late night talk shows a while back and knew I would love this book. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Ericka
Not Too Good On the Kindle
Got this as a library loan and I'm glad I didn't buy it. Although it's a good enough, silly little book, the photos of the grocery lists are extremely difficult if not impossible... Read more
Published 4 months ago by M. Franklin
We're ALL voyeurs, to some degree
You eavesdrop sometimes. You know you do. So do I. Whether we ought to or not, we all have a subtle hankering to know what's behind the proverbial curtain-- to see people with... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Fritha
Hilarious
I bought this book for my mother after I found a hilarious grocery list in a store I used to work at. She sent the list into the author, who only had a website at the time. Read more
Published 12 months ago by Jen
hysterical book, great for the cocktail table
I bought this used for something like $3 (yeah, the shipping cost more) and that was after my wife bought it for full price as a last minute Christmas gift. This is one funny book. Read more
Published 14 months ago by Stephen T. Coomes
Lists Lost and Found - Clever Concept
I found the title and concept of this book so interesting and clever that I bought it off the sale rack at my local bookstore. Read more
Published 20 months ago by A. T. Sharpe
Funny, funny, funny!
Great bathroom book...easy to read in short blurbs, laugh your butt off, and go off to the next thing you gotta do in life.
Published 20 months ago by J. Campbell
Milk, Eggs and Vodka
This is a very dissappointing book. Based upon reviews, I purchased the book expecting some writing but sadly found a collection of scanned garbage. Don't waste your time or money.
Published 22 months ago by Jason Brasher
Nice try...but the original FOUND magazines and books destroys it.
You can't beat Mr. Davy Rothbart's FOUND books/magazine and its amazing assortment of hilarious and heart breaking finds. There's wonderful checklists yes, but sooooo much more. Read more
Published 23 months ago by BenjZuraw
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