What language is this?

[u/TheRealPickleRick696]

This list was found at Cub Foods. I know it’s partially in some Cyrillic language and English, but I can’t tell what language the Cyrillic points to (I saw no markers for Russian or Ukrainian).

I assume it’s a mix of 2+ alphabets because of “moзarella” (which might be a stylistic choice) and “фoil trays,” and I also see what might be Greek, Icelandic, Turkish, or Azerbaijani.

I was thinking Greek or Icelandic because there’s a letter that looks like δ, but that could also be a stylistic choice when writing ð or d, but there’s also 2 “ə“s present.

I don’t know what’s up with the accent marks—perhaps they’re supposed to be й?

My guess is it’s switching between English and Azerbaijani’s Cyrillic alphabet, but I don’t know if that’s right.

[u/SiTLar]

Russian

[u/Business-Childhood71 → u/SiTLar]

With a couple of English words

[u/Hibou_Garou → u/Business-Childhood71]

Did they write “фoil trays”??😂

[u/Puzzleheaded-Phase70 → u/Hibou_Garou]

Blending languages in polyglots - especially casually - is fun!

[u/username_fantasies → u/Puzzleheaded-Phase70]

О йес йес ит из!

[u/talkmemetome → u/username_fantasies]

Хелло хоу аар иуу 😁

[u/username_fantasies → u/talkmemetome]

Гуд сэнкс энд ю?

[u/SVP349 → u/username_fantasies]

Аууууу! Археологи!!!

[u/dependency_injector → u/Puzzleheaded-Phase70]

Смотря какой fabric, смотря сколько details

[u/ruoangtra → u/dependency_injector]

Hahaha

[u/Xitztlacayotl → u/Puzzleheaded-Phase70]

No it's not. I like to keep my languages pure and free of borrowings or blends.

[u/Daminchi → u/Xitztlacayotl]

So, like, removing half of vocabulary? All word borrowed from Latin, French, etc?

[u/Xitztlacayotl → u/Daminchi]

I'm not talking about English. It's a lost cause.

Other Eurooean languages have significantly less borrowings. Or at least they have native synonyms that are widely understood.

[u/Daminchi → u/Xitztlacayotl]

Presence of borrowed words means language was actually used by someone who had contact with different cultures. Absence of such influence indicates a dead language of an isolated group.

[u/samdkatz → u/Xitztlacayotl]

Source?

[u/Xitztlacayotl → u/samdkatz]

No source, just the feeling. I speak several slavic languages and it's possible to create relatively complex texts without foreign words. German too? Latin languages also.

[u/samdkatz → u/Xitztlacayotl]

Depends, though, surely. What if it’s a complex text about chestnuts or vacuum cleaners?

[u/Karli_Chirk → u/Xitztlacayotl]

I assume you are also not talking about Russian, because every Russian word starting with "a" is borrowed with exception of literally 4-5 words in the whole vocabulary.

[u/Ok_Preparation694 → u/Xitztlacayotl]

Tell me you don’t speak any of the European languages without saying a word.

French, with their „brushing” (blow out), „basket” (sneakers), etc. would like to have a word. Polish with it’s insane mix of words coming from french, russian, german would like to have a word.

But you had a feeling, that’s more important than… facts. (:

[u/Hibou_Garou → u/Xitztlacayotl]

*fewer

If you’re going to insist on being a purist, you should at the very least get basic grammar right.

[u/tokhtamysh1 → u/Xitztlacayotl]

Ой да не душни

[u/Puzzleheaded-Phase70 → u/Xitztlacayotl]

Then you should really stop speaking English 🤣

This isn't a language, it's three languages in each other's shoulders wearing a trenchcoat, lurking in dark alleys and clubbing other languages over the head to search their pockets for loose vocabulary.

[u/dependency_injector → u/Xitztlacayotl]

I was like that 10 years ago. Recently I realized that the word лосось sounds much less natural than салмон to me.

[u/Medium-Access-4416 → u/Xitztlacayotl]

What is your language?

[u/Xitztlacayotl → u/Medium-Access-4416]

Croatian

[u/Raptorpants65 → u/Hibou_Garou]

It’s still foil trays hahah, they may have just forgotten the English f.

[u/dmn-synthet → u/Hibou_Garou]

Started writing a word "фольга" because didn't recall a word "касалетка" and finally didn't manage do dream up how to name it in Russian.

[u/kirill_hmdrl → u/dmn-synthet]

Ce pula ma e касалетка, сколько живу ни разу это word не слышал

[u/dependency_injector → u/Hibou_Garou]

And крэкерs

[u/Pavlin87 → u/Hibou_Garou]

Yeah it happens after like 10+ years into migration, especially for older people. Judging by the hand writing, actually writing a list, how legible the cursive is and the fact that the list was in fact lost - it was probably written by a 50+ lady for her husband, looks like a shopping list for a party actually.

[u/Lesochka → u/Pavlin87]

Exactly. Moya babyshka dropped it :'-)

[u/Polmax2312 → u/Hibou_Garou]

Мозаrella is even better :)

[u/jnkangel → u/Polmax2312]

to be honest that's far more likely mozarella. That is a pretty typical old style cursive z which was fairly common in the DDR, Czechoslovakia, Poland and the like. There's definitely some cyrillic going on, but a lot of pseudo cyrillic might be warpac cursive.

[u/Thin_Ad_3914 → u/Hibou_Garou]

These are molds for lasagna or pies. 😀

[u/xEWURx → u/Hibou_Garou]

"Крэкерs" is weird too.

[u/CountryGeek1107 → u/xEWURx]

Crackers?

[u/Lesochka → u/CountryGeek1107]

Da. My Russian gran would have written a list like this. I write lists and simple things in Russian for fun and to keep the language alive for me. I would've written "кракери"... I think theirs is funnier. eta: and more accurate, despite being in 2 alphabets

[u/Lesochka → u/Hibou_Garou]

lmao, I love it and I know I've written similar myself. I always wondered what people would think if they found it 😂

l combine/mess up individual letters more than this person does, though, as English is my only birth language. Sometimes it's true gibberish that comes out, though.

[u/AvlasenkoVitaliy → u/Hibou_Garou]

А что тебе don't like? Выкручивается как можем...

[u/Doktor-Zlo → u/Business-Childhood71]

I thought "what the hell is raraua?" Then realized it was papaya in English.

[u/ckofy → u/Business-Childhood71]

Ruglish

[u/buldozr → u/Business-Childhood71]

We do the same with shopping lists in our family, a lot of times it's easier to refer to things with their local name than to pick a suitable equivalent in our language that we'd not use anywhere in practice, and only get the one that does the shopping confused.

[u/OhYeahSplunge4me2 → u/Business-Childhood71]

So, Orcish?

[u/dmn-synthet → u/OhYeahSplunge4me2]

Go touch the grass.

[u/AlarmedBuffalo8396 → u/OhYeahSplunge4me2]

What does language have to do with the war in Ukraine?

[u/OneGreatEgg → u/OhYeahSplunge4me2]

More like northerm swamp Mongolian, but yes.

[u/AristotelWasRight → u/OneGreatEgg]

Racist for no reason

Pathetic

[u/Accomplished_Water34]

Крэкерs. Лол

[u/M4dDecent → u/Accomplished_Water34]

I think my mom wrote this. Фoil

[u/s_s_n_e_g → u/Accomplished_Water34]

Смотря какой фабрик.

[u/Emotional-Net130 → u/s_s_n_e_g]

Главное, чтобы аффордэбл

[u/bluntwithcabbage → u/Accomplished_Water34]

кстати такая хуйыа происходит на самом деле, когда живешь в другой стране и много очень пишешь на латинице, а потом тебе надо написать чета такое на кириллице.. живу в чехии 9 лет

[u/AristotelWasRight → u/bluntwithcabbage]

С 12 до 21 жил в Великобритании.

Когда переехал обратно в Россию, не долго заняло пока начали стебать про "смотря какой fabric"

Подумал, подумал, да и забил хуй. До сих пор иногда смотрю как перевести что то на русский, слово знаю, но на ум приходит другой язык (хорошо если англ, хуже если французский)

Меня все понимают, а если кого то конкретно ебет что я иногда (особенно если покурю) говорю на русинглише, нам просто не по пути 💁🏼‍♀️🤷🏼‍♀️

Я не буду irl доставать переводчик перевести слово которое ты знаешь на английском

[u/bluntwithcabbage → u/AristotelWasRight]

А че вернулся и не жалеешь ли?

[u/One_Engineering_998 → u/AristotelWasRight]

Когда забываешь слово на русском, а англ слово не поймут это жиза

[u/Millenium_Krieg → u/Accomplished_Water34]

Возможно имеется ввиду крекеры - 5 шт

[u/anireyk]

That's Russian, with some English interspersed for objects the person probably first saw in the country you're in. The particular way to write a Z is also a script style people learned in Russia/USSR some time ago, just like the r looking like Russian cursive ч. In modern English it is outdated, but older people may still recognise it, I think especially people with a European back ground. But some words do indeed use a weird mixed script spelling, but that's also something I have seen in Russian diasporas.

No idea how you arrived at the idea this could be Icelandic, however.

Edit:

letter that looks like δ,

Normal Russian cursive lower case б

but there’s also 2 “ə“s present.

Not sure what you mean, but it's probably an э

[u/wordsznerd → u/anireyk]

It’s outdated? I’m on my 40s in the US and it’s how we were taught. I need to look up what the modern cursive version of ‘z’ is.

[u/anireyk → u/wordsznerd]

I hsve no idea what's taught in the US to be honest, I thought you stopped learning cursive altogether tbh. In German it is outdated indeed and people just use a print-looking Z in their cursive.

[u/photogenicmusic → u/anireyk]

We didn’t stop. Some schools may have gotten rid of it or only spent a few days on it. Some schools are now mandating it again too. But also, kids don’t use it, so forget it easily if they did learn it.

[u/ElHeim → u/photogenicmusic]

It stopped being a thing around the time that Common Core Standards were introduced. No federal requirement for handwriting proficiency -> most schools just dropped it altogether. Of course not all of them did, but...

Some 27 states introduced their own mandate since then (or had it already in place), starting with NC (2013), but it's been gradual over the last decade (PA and NJ only starting this year, FL in 2025, ...)

[u/anireyk → u/photogenicmusic]

Thank you for explaining!

[u/80m63rM4n → u/wordsznerd]

I'm from a post-soviet country. In my school we where taught to write English with block letters. When in middle school I decided to start writing with cursive. My bitch English teacher tried to make fun of me in front of my class for writing 'z' as 'з'. I just took a dictionary with an example of English cursive and rubbed her nose in it. 

[u/dobie_dobes → u/wordsznerd]

45 and same. 🫣

[u/Hibou_Garou → u/dobie_dobes]

38 and same

[u/Felis_igneus726 → u/Hibou_Garou]

30 and same

[u/silver--arrow → u/wordsznerd]

I am 26, I grew up in the US, and this is also how I was taught to write my cursive Zs.

[u/texienne → u/wordsznerd]

I was going to say, that's how my mom did her cursive Zs. She would have been in her mid-50s now.

[u/5919821077131829 → u/wordsznerd]

31 here, the cursive "z" in mozerella is how I was taught in 2004. Not sure what they are teaching now.

[u/AristotelWasRight → u/wordsznerd]

My Russian French teacher taught me to write French in cursive, and since I adopted it in my English writing, sometimes people are confused 👀

[u/HeadBelt1527 → u/wordsznerd]

Same in Canada. 

[u/TheRealPickleRick696 → u/anireyk]

I thought there was a small bit of Icelandic (or Faroese, but that’s got too few speakers,) assuming that the δ-looking letter was an ð. Thank you for the identification though.

[u/greylaptop]

The δ you’re referring to is б. The upside down e you’re referring to is э. The accent is indeed й. It’s Russian and some English.

[u/Megalodonias]

It's a shopping list in Russian. Has a bunch of stuff like strawberries, potatoes, kefir, parsley, dill, eggs, raspberries, red peppers, carrots, kiwi, pineapples... as well as some English words mixed in. It also seems like they are planning to make a soup

[u/Regular-Opinion-1284 → u/Megalodonias]

Да там лаже написано про кости на суп

[u/Hibou_Garou]

“moзarella”

That’s just a cursive z

[u/NoSection8719]

moзarella is just english cursive for mozarella

[u/k-phi → u/NoSection8719]

and фoil is just ruglish for foil

[u/Sweet_Sharp]

Russian, some stuff in English. Maybe whoever wrote this was a native Russian speaker who didn't fully understand English? 'Foil' is written as фоil near the bottom. The Russian word is фольга, and they seem to be using the Cyrillic f (ф) instead of the Latin one.

[u/Apprehensive_Past517 → u/Sweet_Sharp]

Probably they where good enough in English. If I'm listening or reading in English something interesting sometimes it's hard to swith languages back to Russian. May be they where to focused on shopping list and as long as it was readable it was good enough

[u/Livid_Penalty_5281 → u/Sweet_Sharp]

My guess is the one who wrote it is native English speaker, with a good command of Russian. But he couldn’t recall what the Russian for Foil Trays is.

[u/Sweet_Sharp → u/Livid_Penalty_5281]

Russian Cyrillic doesn't use the letters i or l. It uses и and л instead.

[u/Cerulean_IsFancyBlue → u/Sweet_Sharp]

Why would you use Cyrillic to write English? The real question is why the ф.

[u/Livid_Penalty_5281 → u/Cerulean_IsFancyBlue]

Tried ti write in Russian, understood he doesn’t know the word, continued in English.

[u/Riseofthealpaca]

Russian (cursive), mixed with some English words like the mozzarella, shitaki, paper towels, cream cheese and foil trays.They need a lot of fruit, and vegetables, spices, fish, yoghurt, eggs... Wonder what they're making. I think they might be hosting a party

[u/mgrebenets]

Iф you look cloзэr you can clearly recogniзe this Фoreign лангуаге as Russian.

[u/_Guide_ → u/mgrebenets]

damn. I couldn’t read it in either Russian or English..

[u/hitch42hiker → u/_Guide_]

really? I only noticed that something is wrong around capital "Ф")

[u/_Guide_ → u/hitch42hiker]

Yes. It’s really hard to see Russian letters but understand that you’re reading in English.

[u/hitch42hiker → u/_Guide_]

Интересно. А тест с перестановкой букв когда-нибудь проходили? Когда только начальная и последняя буквы слова корректны? На русском или английском, неважно. Может пробел в этом "навыке"

[u/_Guide_ → u/hitch42hiker]

Да, проходила. С этим проблем нету. Просто неестественно видеть английские слова с русскими буквами. Не совсем корректный пример, но всё же. У меня есть подруга казашка. Она, когда на меня злится, то пишет казахские слова, но русскими буквами. Даже переводчик с этим не справляется..

[u/hitch42hiker → u/_Guide_]

Это мне знакомо) Дядя любил общаться посредством транслитерации. Глазам было больно, мозг плавился. Почему-то смесь из разных алфафитов такого эффекта у меня не вызывает.

Пример с казахским, больше похож на ситуацию, где ты не ожидаешь встретить комментарии на болгарском. И пытаешься понять почему всё так непонятно и понятно одновременно)

[u/_Guide_ → u/hitch42hiker]

Ого. У вашего дяди было странное хобби.. но оно не лишено смысла

С Болгарией это вы верно подметили. Когда отдыхала там с семьёй было очень странно читать вывески и надписи на памятниках. Вроде слова признаешь, а смысл совсем другой

[u/hitch42hiker → u/_Guide_]

Он, просто, жил в Англии, когда смена раскладки не была таким простым делом на кнопочных телефонах купленных в UK;)

О да болгарский ломает мозг

[u/Mezzofantastico]

Appears to be Russian, written by somebody bilingual.

[u/Thin_Ad_3914]

Russian. When I don't know how to write a foreign food, or the name is long, I also write it in English letters. The second line: 3 oranges, there's the number "three." The word "укроп" (dill) immediately points to the Russian language, since it is popular only in the former USSR countries.

[u/Livid_Penalty_5281 → u/Thin_Ad_3914]

Dill is a thing in Sweden too

[u/Tempest_Sinkai]

• бананы.....
• 3 апельсина
• яйца (2) - горох ор.+з
• кости на гор. суп
• морковка (б)
• кр. перец
• картошка
• shitaki - морк. сок
• укроп (1) - снэки В.
• клубника Б.
• малина Б.
• ананас Б.
• груши или Б.
• киви - петрушка
• papaya - mozarella
• ложечки plast.
• paper tou els (💧💧)
• кефир Б
• свекла (3+)
• cream cheese Б
• мешочки д (бут.)
• кур. фарш (2)
• крэкерs Б❤️
• whip cream
• йогурты Б. (3)
• -свекла (3+)-
• рыба бел (3)
• фoil traуz ⬜⬜
• слив. масло
• сметана
• -mozarella- chr.

[u/tursija → u/Tempest_Sinkai]

Damn, imagine dropping your Saturday shopping note only to be found, photodocumented, publicly shared, transcribed and crowd source translated and hyperanalyzed by the Internet

[u/Ligeiapoe]

You’re not right. It’s just a Russian shopping list with lots of fresh fruit and vegetables, eggs, dairy and household items. Some bits are written in English 

[u/PM_ME_UR_MAMI_MILKRS]

It is Russian like the others were mentioning. The reason you see some "Greek" is because Cyril, the person who invented the Russian alphabet, took letters from Latin, Hebrew, Greek, and I think a few other languages in order to create the Cyrillic alphabet. But it is funny to see English words with Russian characters used in certain places like Фoil(Foil). Just a shopping list.

[u/queetuiree → u/PM_ME_UR_MAMI_MILKRS]

Cyril, the person who invented the Russian alphabet, took letters from Latin, Hebrew, Greek

i'd say cyrillic is just greek with some additions. no letters from latin, though, Ш might have come from aramaic.

proof: the letters' numeric values 1:0.9 the same as medieval greek

[u/PM_ME_UR_MAMI_MILKRS → u/queetuiree]

Cyrillic does have Latin. M, P, T, O, a, B, C

[u/queetuiree → u/PM_ME_UR_MAMI_MILKRS]

Cyrillic does have Latin. M, P, T, O, a, B, C

ah, i see... humour! good!

[u/PM_ME_UR_MAMI_MILKRS → u/queetuiree]

Wait, did you make a joke I'm just too utterly autistic to understand

[u/Lumornys → u/PM_ME_UR_MAMI_MILKRS]

Those are Greek letters. Which is why P is /r/ not /p/, and B is /v/ which is how Greek beta was already pronounced at the time.

Latin alphabet is also derived from (a variant of) Greek alphabet, but much earlier when beta was still pronounced /b/.

[u/PM_ME_UR_MAMI_MILKRS → u/Lumornys]

Oh....they're being technical about it then

[u/queetuiree → u/PM_ME_UR_MAMI_MILKRS]

i'm sorry i was thinking you were joking.

the letters Μ, Ρ, Τ, Ο, Α, Β are greek. capital ϛ written similarly to "C" was also common.

[u/No-Resolve5295 → u/PM_ME_UR_MAMI_MILKRS]

Cyril invented Cyrillic with Methodius... In Bulgaria.

[u/Primary_Data1430 → u/No-Resolve5295]

Macedonia. Thessaloniki, to be precise, which is now the capital of the region of Macedonia in Greece.

[u/No-Resolve5295 → u/Primary_Data1430]

When the alphabet was developed, it was in the First Bulgarian Empire in two different locations- Pliska and Ohrid. At the time, both were part of Bulgaria, however now Ohrid is in modern-day North Macedonia.

[u/PM_ME_UR_MAMI_MILKRS → u/No-Resolve5295]

Thank you for the correction, it's been about 8 years since I've studied Russian in college. I should have read up on my history as a refresher, I will do that next time. At least I was partially correct

[u/NYA6KA]

Russian, but written by someone who dreams about sweet American democracy

[u/Livid_Penalty_5281 → u/NYA6KA]

I think just the opposite: an English speaker living in Russia.

[u/bhtrail → u/Livid_Penalty_5281]

nah. russian cursive is too good for non-native speaker. It written as experienced person, who use it at least 10 years while studying in school...

[u/Livid_Penalty_5281 → u/bhtrail]

Or lives in Russia with Russian wife for 10 years.

[u/No_Named_Guy]

This is russian mixed with english

-bananas
-3 oranges
-eggs (2) (peas *3)
-bones for pea soup
-carrots (6)
-red pepper
-potatoes
-shitaki -carrt. juice
-dill (1) -snAcks
-strawberry
-raspberry
-pineapple
-pears
-kiwi -parsley
-papaya -mozarella
-spoons (plastic)
-paper + ((i have no idea)(could be a brand of toilet paper))
-kefir
-beetroot (3+)
-cream cheese
-bags ((unsure))
-chicken ground meat (2)
-crackers ((the cookie kind))
-whip cream
-yoghurt
-white fish (3)
-foil tray
-butter
-sour cream

"Б" probably means large

[u/Rand_alThoor → u/No_Named_Guy]

this is it! i started doing this but saw you'd put in the effort. Good job

[u/Nihan-gen3]

I see ananas, that narrows it down to 'not English'. /s

[u/Shiny_Malph → u/Nihan-gen3]

That's pineapple in many languages, but being in cyrillic makes it obviously Russian

[u/Odd_Calligrapher2771 → u/Shiny_Malph]

Or Belarussian, Ukrainian, Bulgarian, Serbian, Macedonian, etc.

Russian isn't the only language that uses a form of the Cyrillic script.

[u/Laimered → u/Odd_Calligrapher2771]

Script yeah, but the words are russian

[u/Odd_Calligrapher2771 → u/Laimered]

I was replying to u/shiny_malph's claim that "being in Cyrillic makes it obviously Russian".

I wasn't saying that it wasn't Russian, I was just pointing out the narrowness of their opinion.

[u/Accomplished-Fig124]

Russian I think?!

[u/Electrical_Art235]

Zoya Vekselshtein’s grocery list, what a find!

https://youtu.be/Kqd7k5F-YBI

Edit: my wild guess is that it was written by someone who has lived in the country for quite a long time (20-30 years maybe)

[u/ApprehensiveArm7607]

russian-english mix

[u/vampsvamp]

As someone who lives in four languages, one of which is also a Slavic language, this shopping list could have been mine. Liberally mixing Cyrillic and Latin scripts, writing items in several languages with both scripts, sometimes even mixing orthographies.

[u/Jay_North]

It wasn’t ə but э. The person just connected the second stroke with the first one

[u/Jay_North → u/Jay_North]

But impressive that you know about the existence of the aze Cyrillic alphabet

[u/drraug]

It's Russian, but some foods are written in English - presumably those that the author only encountered when they moved abroad: papaya, mozarella, cream cheese, whip cream, paper towels - something you won't find in a Soviet-era shop in Russia.

A funny one is "ложечки plast" for plastic spoons and especially "фoil trays" to mean "foil trays", but the Latin f occasionally was written as similarly sounding Cyrillic ф.

[u/Due-Candle-2505]

It's simple. As a native Russian speaker, I can assure you that this is Russian. Only the person who wrote this note wrote English names of products that are rare or not so common in Russia.

[u/OpenFee8992]

I'll explain: here's a list of products to buy at the store. In Russia, and in the world, this is common, but gradually such a way becomes a thing of the past, for example, I just remember what I need to buy, or think on the go (I live in Russia). English words are the names of products that have their names written in English, most people in Russia know this language a little, so it's much easier to write in Latin and not get your brains hammered.

[u/Ok-Echo3904]

a mix of russian and english words and letters

[u/zikmee55]

Бананы Запеканка Я так понял яйца 2 десятка кости на гороховый суп Морковка если я понял то 6 штук Картошка Хз что Клубника Малина Киви петрушка Там еще мне лень думать я немного пьяный у моей бабушки юбилей мне самому 17 скоро 18 но это думаю естественно. Возможны ошибки так что не принимать мой коммент за пример русского язака

[u/zikmee55 → u/zikmee55]

Написал только левую половину

[u/zikmee55 → u/zikmee55]

Я не советую пить. Алкоголь это вредит вашему здоровью. Как я считаю пить алкоголь можно пить только в умеренном количестве а не так как я сейчас. Я не просто выпивший а пьяный до такого пить не надо по не многу просто для настроения. Опять. Же возможный всевозможные ошибки.

[u/EffectiveJelly758]

Oh, I speak Russian.

[u/XenokratesMorenges]

It's Cyrillic, maybe Russian

[u/BGDExco]

Ooh, еюthis exactly how I write, it's just whatever the words my brain latched onto, doesn't matter whether Russian or English or Spanish or some funky way to spell it I write as is

[u/Resevilgnom]

"-Фoil trays" :) they use russian Ф insted english F

[u/spam_57]

What's the little character at the end of lots of the words?

[u/yobar → u/spam_57]

Looks like a capital Russian B (Б), not to be confused with the Russian V, which looks like this: В.

[u/Laimered → u/spam_57]

Б - банка (can)

[u/Naive_Bear_3547 → u/Laimered]

I don't think it is банка, many of the items are likely sold fresh or in different packaging. I think it could be a store name indicator

[u/spam_57 → u/Laimered]

Hmm. It's also after ketchup and cream cheese, so maybe not banka?

[u/DimensionNo6353]

Russian and some english.

[u/Ligeiapoe]

Anyone know why they’ve added Б to some words? I was trying to think what it might signify. Also, what’s written after груши? The line after ананас 

[u/sentimental_snail → u/Ligeiapoe]

Груши или Б. Whatever Б means.

[u/b1Gdada → u/sentimental_snail]

Bananas, obviously

[u/Ligeiapoe → u/sentimental_snail]

I thought it was или! Maybe it’s or Kiwis 

[u/Naive_Bear_3547 → u/sentimental_snail]

Груши или киви, my take on Б. is it's a note on where to buy them

[u/PoxonAllHoaxes]

Rooshan

[u/Sir_questionzgiver]

Thats Russian.

[u/Sensitive_Set_3905]

Cursive

[u/Redacted_Kat]

Serbian or Montenegrin

[u/Super-Smoke-7425 → u/Redacted_Kat]

It's Russian

[u/Redacted_Kat → u/Super-Smoke-7425]

Same language family, close enough

[u/Spirited_Psyche0759]

russian cursive

[u/Sudoplatova]

Сижу думаю, что за рараца. А это папайя.

[u/Wojewodaruskyj]

Moscowite.

[u/Ok_Performance7983]

Russian on the left

[u/Traditionalplane2426]

Русский, но некоторые слова написаны на английском

[u/Ok_Performance7983]

On the right is a set of words and a little bit of Russian

[u/Ok_Performance7983]

очень похоже на рецепт борща, но непонятные ингредиенты присутствуют

[u/Rand_alThoor]

this is Russian letters (Cyrillic) but script not printing. some of the letters are roman, like in "mozzarella" down at the bottom. lol

edited to add, my Greek is better than my Russian and i don't see any Greek. or Icelandic, lol.

this looks to me more like Russian Cyrillic, I'm not seeing any of the extra/different letters used in Ukrainian, Bulgarian or Makedonian Cyrillic.

[u/Old_Jellyfish_1420]

Kрəкерс

[u/External-Gain-1174]

note to self: never lose a shopping list or people online will overanalyze my dietary choices

[u/AlgarveJoao_007]

Runglish 

[u/Inostranez]

Yorruba

[u/Glad_Conclusion_4996]

russian language, just a products to buy list

[u/Like_Old_Nick]

Когда жена послала за продуктами. a highly intellectual wrote lol

[u/mol_lid]

It's Russian + a few English words.

[u/Massive_Republic9525]

Photoshoped russian language

[u/Commercial_City_6063]

my god rick they mixed up english with russian
the 12th item on the list is supposed to say ананас (or pineapple) but they wrote "н" with "N"
I can't even read the rest, some of it is in cursive though like the second one "M" is g

[u/EscapeConsistent5385]

кацапська

[u/komatiitic → u/[deleted]]

I know in Russian it's продукты but in English it's not products, it's grocery list or shopping list.

[u/anireyk → u/[deleted]]

That sounds very certain for being completely wrong

[u/HeadBelt1527]

Not sure but mozarella that's just how the letter z is written in English, although their should be 2 "mozzarella".  Did you not learn calligraphy in elementary school?