Braniff International Airline advertised their comfortable aeroplane seats with the slogan "Fly into Leather" -unfortunately, in Spanish this translated as.....
Fly naked
Fly dirty
Fly Ugly
Fly Smelly
______ 's brand name, when first marketed in China, was sometimes translated as "Bite The Wax Tadpole."
Subway
Coca Cola
Apple
Ferrari
Mercedes-Benz entered the Chinese market under the brand name "Bensi," which means "______."
pig machine
waste of money
rush to die
cheap and slow
KFC made Chinese consumers a bit worried when "finger licking good" was translated as "______."
your fingers smell delicious
eat your fingers off
kiss your tasty fingers
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 _________"
spit on you
wet your pants
sneeze on you
make you pregnant
Electrolux at one time marketed its vacuum cleaners in the U.S. with the tag line: Nothing ____ likes an Electrolux.
sucks
blows
works
cleans
"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 kill you
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
Yuck
Poop
Hell
Hmm, suddenly I'm not hungry any more! These Chinese potato chips are called....
Only Burp
Only Puke
Only Skin
Only Pee
Google was originally known as _____rub.
Back
Head
Foot
Nose
Mmm, delicious! Who could resist a jam that "Tastes like ......."?`
Dirty
Feet
Sweat
Grandma
You're in Ghana and feeling thirsty, how about a refreshing bottle of _____ Cola?
Boy
Pee
Bad
Poo
When Ford launched their new car campaign in Belgium, they mistakenly used the slogan "Every car has a high-quality ______"
armpit
corpse
crash
stink
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.
Africans are not used to buying foods that come in jars.
the products were too expensive.
