bait work joke day american dairy association successful got milk campaign decided extend ads mexico unfortunately spanish translation lactating electrolux scandinavian vacuum manufacturer used ad u nothing sucks like electrolux colgate introduced toothpaste called cue france turned name well known porno magazine braniff translated slogan touting upholstery fly leather came spanish fly naked coors put slogan turn loose spanish read suffer diarrhea chicken magnate frank perdue line takes tough man make tender chicken sounds much interesting spanish takes sexually stimulated man make chicken affectionate bacardi concocted fruity drink name pavian suggest french chic pavian means baboon german hair products company clairol introduced mist stick curling iron germany find mist slang manure many people use manure stick kentucky fried chicken entered chinese market horror discovered slogan finger lickin good came eat fingers vicks first introduce cough drops german market chagrined learn german pronunciation v f german guttural equivalent sexual penetration parker pens translated slogan ink avoid embarrassment use quink spanish evite embarazos use quink also means avoid pregnancy use quink pepsi started marketing products china years back translated slogan pepsi brings back life pretty literally slogan chinese really meant pepsi brings ancestors back grave italy campaign schweppes tonic water translated name much less thirst quenching schweppes toilet water chinese translation proved difficult coke took two tries get right first tried ke kou ke la pronounced sounded roughly like coca cola thousands signs printed discovered phrase means bite wax tadpole female horse stuffed wax depending dialect second time around things worked much better researching 40 000 chinese characters coke came ko kou ko le translates roughly much appropriate happiness mouth outdone puffs tissues tried later introduce product learn puff german colloquial term whorehouse english fond name either highly derogatory term non heterosexual chevy nova never sold well spanish speaking countries va means go spanish ford introduced pinto brazil watching sales go nowhere company learned pinto brazilian slang tiny male genitals ford pried nameplates cars substituted corcel means horse gerber first started selling baby food africa used packaging usa cute baby label later found africa companies routinely put pictures label inside since people read french part canada hunt wesson introduced big john products gros jos later found phrase slang big breasts