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