The new Polish Food shop at the top of West St Helen Street has started to stock the shelves. I am not sure how many Polish people live in Abingdon, but as always we locals are up for giving it a go.
Using Google Translate I see:
Polish Food Shop = Polski Sklep Food
You’re Welcome = Serdecznie Zapraszamy
Opening Soon !!! = Wkrótce Otwarcie !!!
Some other useful vocabulary:
Yes: Tak (as in tick-‘tack’)
No: Nie (as in ‘nyeh’-nyeh-na-na-na)
OK: Dobrze (‘dough’ plus a ‘b’ then ‘she’)
Good day: Dzien dobry (‘jean’ and ‘dough’ plus ‘bree’ like the cheese)
Hi: Czesc (use this one on friends only: ‘che sh ch’ but run it all together as one sound)
Bye: Czesc (works like ‘aloha’ or ‘ciao’ or ‘salut’, making informal comings and goings easy)
Good bye: Do widzenia (‘dough’ and ‘wid zen ya’ comes close enough)
This is exactly the type of shop to bring in the tourists (sigh!)
Actually I love Polish food. I hope they stock the chocolate covered plums – delicious. Lots of other things worth trying, usually at very reasonable prices. The Spar shop over the road already has a good range of Polish food so they’ll have competition now.
They do stock the chocolate covered plums! Lots of yummy samples to test today. Wishing the business well!
actually, the stuff they stock in spar is at the cheap “tesco” end of the market – good Polish food is much much better than that.
Here’s hoping.