Food or games?

[redbird]

After putting together the toy in my Kinder Egg, using instructions entirely in pictograms, I found that I had something whose purpose is to fall off the edge of the table: and it isn't even very good at it.

However, we had fun identifying the languages on the warning label: having gone effortlessly from English through español and Polska, and been briefly sidetracked by Hungarian on the way to Hrvatska*, I faltered at MK (in Cyrillic) (Macedonian, maybe?) before coming up triumphantly at Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.

Then I noticed the real oddity: not the inclusion of Romanian and Russian, but the absence of French, Italian, German, and all the Scandinavian languages. Do they sell no kinder eggs in Scandinavia? How many are they selling in Bulgaria?

Still, it's a lot better than the alleged toys that come in Cracker Jacks these days.

*Croatian

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[redbird]

I can puzzle out bits of Cyrillic--knowing the Greek as well as the Latin alphabet helps--and one of the words/roots I recognize is the Russian for "Russian", in part because I've seen it on newsstands so often: one of our local papers is the "New Russian Voice" (Novoe Russkye Slovo, transliterating very roughly and from memory). (I think the last word is "voice", but I may have been misinformed, or be misremembering.) And the Russian bit of this page is labeled with the full word "Russia", not just the shorthand of E or UK or PL.