Braniff International Airline advertised their comfortable aeroplane seats with the slogan "Fly into Leather" -unfortunately, in Spanish this translated as.....
Fly Ugly
Fly Dirty
Fly Smelly
Fly Naked
______ 's brand name, when first marketed in China, was sometimes translated as "Bite The Wax Tadpole."
Coca Cola
Apple
Ferrari
Subway
Mercedes-Benz entered the Chinese market under the brand name "Bensi," which means "______."
cheap and slow
rush to die
waste of money
pig machine
KFC made Chinese consumers a bit worried when "finger licking good" was translated as "______."
eat your fingers off
your fingers smell delicious
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 _________"
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.
sucks
works
blows
cleans
"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.
idiot
robber
drug dealer
killer
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 Pee
Only Skin
Only Puke
Only Burp
Which social media app was originally known as Burbn?
Twitter
TikTok
Instagram
Facebook
Google was originally known as _____rub.
Back
Foot
Head
Nose
Mmm, delicious! Who could resist a jam that "Tastes like ......."?`
Dirty
Sweat
Feet
Grandma
You're in Ghana and feeling thirsty-how about a refreshing bottle of _____ Cola?
Poo
Pee
Boy
Bad
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 advertising in France when they discovered that "gerber" means "______" in French.
to poison
to torture
to vomit
to pick your nose
