It has been debunked so many times on answers:
(see http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/santa.asp )
yet almost any question that addresses christmas will make reference to the supposed coke/santa claus link
2006-12-10 22:59:46 · 20 answers · asked by Vinni and beer 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
And still people continue to say it was coke !!
look people, there's a link in my answer....it links to Snopes.com and they are one of the world authorities on urban legends....they actually look up historical records.....they do research and check out the facts in those silly e-mails that we all get.
Santa was established with a red suit long before coke used him in any advertising.
2006-12-10 23:35:54 · update #1
Because if a lie is repeated often enough then everyone begins to believe it is the truth. Goebbels did this in Germany during the Nazi period to great effect.
I don't think this is a deliberate lie, its just that it's easier for people to accept the easy Coke explanation than the more complicated real answer.
Snopes.com is excellent at debunking all these myths
2006-12-10 23:14:37 · answer #1 · answered by Corneilius 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
"In the 1930s the image was further refined when a Swedish artist named Haddon Sundblom started drawing advertisements for Coca-Cola featuring a fat Santa in a red coat trimmed with fur and secured with a large belt: the image that now we know. Sundblom's Santa carried his bottle of coke to quench "a thirst for all seasons" and turned up in annual festive advertisements for the drink for the next 30 years." See the article below, hope this provides a few facts to the debate.
2006-12-10 23:21:37 · answer #2 · answered by CT 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because it's true. An artist working for Coca cola was asked to design Santa in such a way so as to boost the christmas sales of coke. Saw it on the history channel!
2006-12-10 23:10:20 · answer #3 · answered by vivian 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well I think coca cola did. Up until then, the Fathr Christmas image was based on St Nicholas, patron saint of children, who wore a similar outfit, I think, but more like a gnome with a Bishops hat on! I'm sure it was the early Coke advertising that portrayed a fatter figure with the beard and red hat eetc. Could be wrong.
2006-12-10 23:05:51 · answer #4 · answered by myfavouritelucy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Coca Cola changed the modern image of Santa Clause to suit their advertising and with huge corporate marketing a folklore that might have faded into obscurity became a wide spread symbol.
2006-12-10 23:08:10 · answer #5 · answered by Skippy 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not sure but My Uncle worked 4 Coke years ago & I was told from the 20's & 30's Coke had Santa on Their Product
2006-12-10 23:10:11 · answer #6 · answered by sugarbdp1 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I am not sure and I can't tell you detail information because I didn't study it. I think that original Santa Claus was different from the one we know all now days. Santa Claus in red clothes, beard and represented as a fat old man was shown in Coca Cola commercials. They spread the image of Santa Claus. The original one was small, not similar to a human, but to some creature from fairytale, without beard, but he was fat as well.
2006-12-10 23:08:40 · answer #7 · answered by nelli 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You obviously don't read all of the answers given to these questions that annoy you so much as within the last week I answered with much the same answer as your link suggests. Coca cola while not inventing the image have certainly perpetuated it!
2006-12-11 07:25:26 · answer #8 · answered by thecat 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
St Nick who Santa is based on dressed in red way before coke.
2006-12-11 02:38:01 · answer #9 · answered by Tabbyfur aka patchy puss 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I read somewhere that Father Christmas wore a green outfit snd Coca Cola changed his outfit to red and it just stuck I guess
2006-12-10 23:04:34 · answer #10 · answered by aquí_para_ayudar 2 · 3⤊ 0⤋