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