Coca-Cola Cancels Campaign Due to Translation Blunder

Coca-Cola has been forced to cancel a Canadian advertising campaign that combined randomly generated English and French words and displayed them on the inside of bottle tops after an woman in Edmonton, Canada received one that said “You Retard.”
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