Marketing Gaffe Hall of Fame

The adidas JS Roundhouse Mid sneakers . . . the cancelled shoes . . . appear to have shackles -- reminiscent of slavery or prisons -- attached with chain-like links. Nike pulling Black and Tan shoes when the company was alerted that moniker referred to British paramilitary groups that terrorized Irish people in the 1920s. And Umbro apologized and pulled the Zyklon branded shoes in 2002 -- while Zyklon is German for cyclone it also was the name of a fatal gas that Nazis used in concentration camps. Also in 2002, Converse drew criticism for sneakers called Loaded Weapons. Coors once used a "Turn It Loose" slogan whose initial translation into Spanish amounted to "Get Diarrhea" while KFC's "Finger Lickin' Good" slogan, in an initial translation for use in China, came out like this: "Eat Your Fingers Off."