Mistranslated product packaging is a genre of its own, distinct from menu errors, and it fails at a different point. A menu is translated once for a local audience; packaging is translated for export, printed in bulk, and then cannot be corrected without scrapping stock. The wording usually comes from whoever was cheapest and had no access to the product.
The recurring errors are consistent: a brand name transliterated rather than checked, an ingredient rendered by its dictionary gloss, and instructions translated from an already awkward intermediate language. Buyers can read the packaging as a signal — copy that has clearly not been read by a speaker suggests the same about the compliance labelling next to it. This entry is kept as part of the image archive.
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