i am not sure if my mates are winding me up on this. Help me please
2007-01-07 10:31:12 · 17 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Mythology & Folklore
Quite excellent. In fact coca cola do own the image rights for Santa. Sounds crazy hey! Santa Claus is an old European story, Norwegian. He was a bad guy who used to take children away in the winter if they had been bad that year. He was green and white. But when coca cola purchased the rights to the story they changed it somewhat, they still use him today quite openly in their advertising campaigns. Funny thing eh!!!
2007-01-07 10:37:11 · answer #1 · answered by NDK 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
A Boston printer named Louis Prang introduced the English custom of Christmas cards to America, and in 1885 he issued a card featuring a red-suited Santa. The chubby Santa with a red suit (like an "overweight superhero") began to replace the fur-dressed Belsnickle image and the multicolored Santas.
Coca Cola just made him more popular.
2007-01-07 10:37:00 · answer #2 · answered by Martha P 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The present representation of Father Christmas has come from a Coca-cola advert, years ago. Father Christmas was not always though of as a plump man with a big long beard....
2007-01-07 10:34:54 · answer #3 · answered by ftumpsh 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He was around before Coca Cola used him in advertising. When they did they put him in a red and white suit, which caught on. So his suit is an invention of the coca cola company. Before that it was a long robe, not red and white.
2007-01-07 10:33:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
No, he is not an invention of the Coka-Cola company. However, until Coke started using him as an icon, he was most popularly known as a small person, the size of a midget. The Santa image Coke created, the big, burly fellow, was the template for today's idea of Santa.
2007-01-07 10:35:01 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No. Our idea of what Santa Claus looks like is because of the illustration by Thomas Nast, done before Coca-Cola existed.
2007-01-07 10:36:03 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I totally agree.....thats what i tell people, christmas period doesn't officially start till the coca cola adverts start!!!
2016-05-23 05:01:06 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heavens No.
Coca Cola has been around for maybe 100 years at the very most.
Father Christmas has been around since before the 1500s.
Your mates are asssssholes.
2007-01-07 10:33:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
No but the red and white suit was. He traditionally wore green before the Coke advertising campaign had him in a red suit to match Coke's colors.
2007-01-07 10:34:27 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
the image of father christmas yes. as in the round belly, red cheeks, the white beard, etc. they used him for commericalisation purposes.
2007-01-07 10:54:58 · answer #10 · answered by moonshine 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋