Parker Pen
The company was marketing a new ballpoint pen and there catchy slogan “it won't leak in your pocket and embarrass you” but in Spain they used the wrong verb for “to embarrass” so the slogan came out as “it will not leak in your pocket and make your pregnant.”
Electrolux
A Scandinavian campaign used the phrase “nothing sucks like Electrolux” by accident and this blew up in the public.
Kentucky Fried Chicken
KFC has always had the slogan “finger licking good” but they ran into a little bit of a dilemma when they realized that the slogan translated into Chinese means eat your fingers off.
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