When Coca-Cola first marketed Coke in China in the 1920s, it developed a group of Chinese characters that when translated meant ______________.
A) bring your ancestors back from the dead
B) bite the wax tadpole
C) our drink leaves you nothing to hope for
D) get loose with our drink

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The group of Chinese characters chosen by Coca-Cola when they first marketed Coke in China was translated to "bite the wax tadpole." This was due to a lack of a proper phonetic equivalent in Chinese, leading to an unintended and nonsensical translation.

When Coca-Cola First Marketed Coke in China in the 1920s