Why is Coca Cola sponsored by Santa Claus? We all know that Santa drinks milk and hot cocoa.
2007-11-21 11:16:45 · 9 answers · asked by tIgErFaCe2002 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Holidays ➔ Christmas
Even Santa needs some caffeine
2007-11-21 11:20:39 · answer #1 · answered by Yay me!!!! 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Santa Claus that we all picture today started in 1931 when Cocacola commissioned Haddon Sundblom, an artist to depict Santa Claus promoting Cocacola...the public absolutely loved this rendition of Santa Claus, and for the first time, Santa actually became Human! Sundblom originally used a model, named Lou Prentice,a retired Salesman,for these ads, but after Prentice died, could not find another suitable model...a freind of Sundblom suggested he use his (Sundblom's) own face, and so he took a hard look at himself, and for the last two and a half generations, American 's and millions of people all over the world regard Sundblom's Santa Claus as the real Santa that depicts the true spirit of Christmas! For more information about Santa Claus, find and read the book by E. Willis Jones , called "The Santa Claus Book" published by Walker and Company, New York...my copy is from 1976...
2007-11-22 11:06:55 · answer #2 · answered by Sherrie B 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sorry, Rob, you are wrong, the American version of Santa Claus came about by the illustrator of the poem The Night Before Christmas, by Clement Moore, in 1822, way before Coca Cola. Santa sells Coke because the Coca Cola people know that it is good advertising and makes money. That is all about the bottom line.
2007-11-21 19:35:37 · answer #3 · answered by Isadora 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its the other way around. Santa Claus was originally made up by Coca Cola. His clothes are red and white same as the coke bottles and cans. Anyway coke products are the soft drink, and santa products are toys that look like santa and other things like that.
2007-11-21 19:26:11 · answer #4 · answered by robertc_tas 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Lol good question because its probably because coke has many drinks and they decided to put Santa with the coke company
2007-11-21 19:27:44 · answer #5 · answered by mia19367 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
we all think we know a lot about Santa. but how much do we really know?
2007-11-21 19:34:08 · answer #6 · answered by deva 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Santa needs money too! How do you think he pays the elves?
2007-11-21 19:26:18 · answer #7 · answered by Cass 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
thats a good question.
2007-11-21 19:21:19 · answer #8 · answered by confussed 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
coke just wants to sell to kids... I donno
2007-11-21 19:23:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋