Braniff International Airline advertised their comfortable aeroplane seats with the slogan "Fly into Leather" -unfortunately, in Spanish this translated as.....
Fly naked
Fly Ugly
Fly dirty
Fly Smelly
______ 's brand name, when first marketed in China, was sometimes translated as "Bite The Wax Tadpole."
Apple
Subway
Coca Cola
Ferrari
Mercedes-Benz entered the Chinese market under the brand name "Bensi," which means "______."
rush to die
cheap and slow
pig machine
waste of money
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
spit on you
sneeze on you
wet your pants
Electrolux at one time marketed its vacuum cleaners in the U.S. with the tag line: Nothing ____ likes an Electrolux.
blows
cleans
works
sucks
"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.
drug dealer
idiot
robber
killer
For some reason, this Polish chocolate bar just wasn't popular in other countries. What was its name?
Yuck
Hell
Fart
Poop
Hmm, suddenly I'm not hungry any more! These Chinese potato chips are called....
Only Puke
Only Skin
Only Burp
Only Pee
Google was originally known as _____rub.
Nose
Head
Back
Foot
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
Poo
Bad
Pee
When Ford launched their new car campaign in Belgium, they mistakenly used the slogan "Every car has a high-quality ______"
stink
corpse
crash
armpit
The American baby food company Gerber had trouble selling its products in Africa because....
consumers thought the product was made from babies.
Africans are not used to buying foods that come in jars.
the products were too expensive.
the products looked inedible.
