On 7/27/2016 11:45 AM, Jack Campin wrote:

If you shop in places intended for Eastern Europeans there is a good
chance that the ingredients lists on the packaging will not be in
any language you can understand. This happens in Polish food shops
in the UK too. Even large transnational companies adopt a policy of
labelling food in only Western European or only Eastern European
languages, never a mix of the two. This is a bloody nuisance because
often the stuff available in Polish shops has a more limited range of
ingredients and would actually be a good option for people with food
allergies, if only they had a way of knowing what they were getting.

I've found a smartphone very handy in Polish food shops - the staff know
only the Polish names, I know the English ones. Use the online
translator of your choice. (Now I can buy whole-grain rye flour!)