Braniff International Airline advertised their comfortable aeroplane seats with the slogan "Fly into Leather" -unfortunately, in Spanish this translated as.....
Fly Smelly
Fly naked
Fly dirty
Fly Ugly
______ 's brand name, when first marketed in China, was sometimes translated as "Bite The Wax Tadpole."
Ferrari
Subway
Apple
Coca Cola
Mercedes-Benz entered the Chinese market under the brand name "Bensi," which means "______."
rush to die
waste of money
pig machine
cheap and slow
KFC made Chinese consumers a bit worried when "finger licking good" was translated as "______."
kiss your tasty fingers
bite your fingernails
eat your fingers off
your fingers smell delicious
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.
works
sucks
cleans
blows
"Pepsi brings you back to life", but not in China! The slogan translates into Chinese as .....
Pepsi will kill you
Pepsi will scare you to death
Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave
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.
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
Hell
Fart
Hmm, suddenly I'm not hungry any more! These Chinese potato chips are called....
Only Skin
Only Pee
Only Puke
Only Burp
Google was originally known as _____rub.
Nose
Foot
Back
Head
Mmm, delicious! Who could resist a jam that "Tastes like ......."?`
Feet
Grandma
Dirty
Sweat
You're in Ghana and feeling thirsty, how about a refreshing bottle of _____ Cola?
Boy
Bad
Poo
Pee
When Ford launched their new car campaign in Belgium, they mistakenly used the slogan "Every car has a high-quality ______"
crash
corpse
stink
armpit
The American baby food company Gerber had trouble selling its products in Africa because....
consumers thought the product was made from babies.
the products were too expensive.
the products looked inedible.
Africans are not used to buying foods that come in jars.
