Why does Santa have a big belly?

Answer 1

You'd have to go back in time to the 19th century really to get the answer. Clement Clarke Moore described him in the now immortalized poem A Visit from St. Nicholas, better known by it's first line of Twas the Night Before Christmas, as follows

"He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;
A bundle of toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a peddler just opening his pack.
His eyes -- how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow,
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow;
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath;
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook, when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly.
He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself"

So we look at three of the last four lines. More accurately we look at the three lines which preceed the very last line. He's said to have a round belly that shakes like jelly. Does that equate to a big belly? Well if we're not sure, chubby and plump would seem to clench it.

Thomas Nast's image's of Santa for Harper's Weekly, beginning during the Civil War, are said to have been the basis for the modern appearance of Santa. The links below are all Harper's Weekly images Nast did, the first being "Santa Claus in Camp" which appeared as the cover of the Jan. 3, 1863 issue. Also in the same issue, Santa is figured at the top corners of "Christmas Eve 1862". "Merry Old Santa Claus," from the Jan. 1, 1881 issue, really depicts the belly well.

Answer 2

from all the cookies and milk he consumes on Christmas eve! Also I'm pretty sure Mrs. Clause likes to cook a lot and I'm sure it's not soy and tofu! I'm sure its the good ol meat and potatoes with pies and cakes for desert! Hot cocoa and eggnog as well!

and lets face it im sure he's not out jogging and lifting weights every day!

Answer 3

Dude thats the wierdest question ive ever seen? yet im no longer gonna lie, its particularly humorous. And confident i might do it for particular. i might on no account pass on a gamble to sleep with maria. whether she is a great with a santa abdomen. relatively? a santa abdomen?

Answer 4

OK, this one's easy.

Santa sits on his butt 364 days a year, while on-line orders come into his shop and he's "Supervising" the elves to fill the orders, and Mrs. Claus arouses his senses and belly with scrumptious delicacies.

He doesn't do anything to burn off the calories until Christmas Eve when he rides in the sleigh, twitches his nose and blinks the gifts under the tree and into the stockings. What manual labor does he perform?

Answer 5

Preserve it natural. Avoiding processed foods will maintain your digestion working efficiently along with minimise your salt intake.

Answer 6

because he only works one night a year, and he eats around 10,000,000,000 calories from cookies and milk while he works. Then he hibernates for 364 days.

Answer 7

Keep it natural. Avoiding processed foods will keep digestion working efficiently as well as minimise your salt intake.

Answer 8

He eats to many cookies and has the elf's doing all the work for him so he doesn't get a lot of exercise.

Answer 9

he eats lots of yummy cookies. millions to be more precise

Answer 10

Ask the Coca-Cola Company. They designed him that way according to the History Channel.