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."
Ferrari
Apple
Subway
Coca Cola
Mercedes-Benz entered the Chinese market under the brand name "Bensi," which means "______."
cheap and slow
waste of money
rush to die
pig machine
KFC made Chinese consumers a bit worried when "finger licking good" was translated as "______."
your fingers smell delicious
eat your fingers off
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 _________"
spit on you
sneeze on you
make you pregnant
wet your pants
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 scare you to death
Pepsi brings your ancestors back from the grave
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.
idiot
robber
killer
drug dealer
For some reason, this Polish chocolate bar just wasn't popular in other countries. What was its name?
Yuck
Hell
Poop
Fart
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
Facebook
Instagram
TikTok
Google was originally known as _____rub.
Back
Nose
Head
Foot
Mmm, delicious! Who could resist a jam that "Tastes like ......."?`
Feet
Sweat
Grandma
Dirty
You're in Ghana and feeling thirsty-how about a refreshing bottle of _____ Cola?
Poo
Boy
Bad
Pee
When Ford launched their new car campaign in Belgium, they mistakenly used the slogan "Every car has a high-quality ______"
stink
armpit
crash
corpse
The American baby food company Gerber had trouble advertising in France when they discovered that "gerber" means "______" in French.
to vomit
to pick your nose
to poison
to torture
