Braniff International Airline advertised their comfortable aeroplane seats with the slogan "Fly into Leather" -unfortunately, in Spanish this translated as.....
Fly Smelly
Fly dirty
Fly naked
Fly Ugly
______ 's brand name, when first marketed in China, was sometimes translated as "Bite The Wax Tadpole."
Coca Cola
Subway
Ferrari
Apple
Mercedes-Benz entered the Chinese market under the brand name "Bensi," which means "______."
cheap and slow
waste of money
pig machine
rush to die
KFC made Chinese consumers a bit worried when "finger licking good" was translated as "______."
your fingers smell delicious
eat your fingers off
bite your fingernails
kiss your tasty fingers
Parker Pen, when expanding into Mexico, mistranslated "It won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you" into "It won't leak in your pocket and _________"
make you pregnant
wet your pants
spit on you
sneeze on you
Electrolux at one time marketed its vacuum cleaners in the U.S. with the tag line: Nothing ____ likes an Electrolux.
blows
cleans
sucks
works
"Pepsi brings you back to life", but not in China! The slogan translates into Chinese as .....
Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave
Pepsi will destroy your family
Pepsi will scare you to death
Pepsi will kill you
In the 1970’s, American Motors released their new car, the Matador, in Puerto Rico. Unfortunately, Matador translates to “_____” in Spanish.
idiot
killer
robber
drug dealer
For some reason, this Polish chocolate bar just wasn't popular in other countries. What was its name?
Hell
Poop
Fart
Yuck
Hmm, suddenly I'm not hungry any more! These Chinese potato chips are called....
Only Skin
Only Burp
Only Pee
Only Puke
Google was originally known as _____rub.
Head
Foot
Nose
Back
Mmm, delicious! Who could resist a jam that "Tastes like ......."?`
Feet
Dirty
Sweat
Grandma
You're in Ghana and feeling thirsty, how about a refreshing bottle of _____ Cola?
Pee
Boy
Poo
Bad
When Ford launched their new car campaign in Belgium, they mistakenly used the slogan "Every car has a high-quality ______"
corpse
armpit
stink
crash
The American baby food company Gerber had trouble selling its products in Africa because....
the products were too expensive.
the products looked inedible.
Africans are not used to buying foods that come in jars.
consumers thought the product was made from babies.
