Braniff International Airline advertised their comfortable aeroplane seats with the slogan "Fly into Leather" -unfortunately, in Spanish this translated as.....
Fly Naked
Fly Smelly
Fly Dirty
Fly Ugly
______ '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 "______."
cheap and slow
rush to die
pig machine
waste of money
KFC made Chinese consumers a bit worried when "finger licking good" was translated as "______."
kiss your tasty fingers
your fingers smell delicious
bite your fingernails
eat your fingers off
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 _________"
sneeze on you
wet your pants
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
sucks
works
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 scare you to death
Pepsi will kill you
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.
killer
idiot
drug dealer
robber
For some reason, this Polish chocolate bar just wasn't popular in other countries. What was its name?
Fart
Hell
Poop
Yuck
Hmm, suddenly I'm not hungry any more! These Chinese potato chips are called....
Only Skin
Only Puke
Only Burp
Only Pee
Which social media app was originally known as Burbn?
Facebook
TikTok
Twitter
Instagram
Google was originally known as _____rub.
Nose
Foot
Head
Back
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?
Pee
Bad
Boy
Poo
When Ford launched their new car campaign in Belgium, they mistakenly used the slogan "Every car has a high-quality ______"
armpit
crash
corpse
stink
The American baby food company Gerber had trouble advertising in France when they discovered that "gerber" means "______" in French.
to torture
to vomit
to poison
to pick your nose
