Kris kringle

[Ryan69]

It's quite amazing how deep the propaganda goes.

Coca Cola took a chimney sweeping thief,and mixed it with a near canonised Saint...to increase winter sales.


Then Christmas as you know it was born.

 

[egb_hibs]

It's quite amazing how deep the propaganda goes.

Coca Cola took a chimney sweeping thief,and mixed it with a near canonised Saint...to increase winter sales.


Then Christmas as you know it was born.

Ryan is there really no conspiracy or urban myth you won’t swallow?

Coca Cola started using Santa in their adverts in the 1930s. This is an image of Santa from 1863, more than 20 years before the Coca Cola company was founded.



Santa goes back to centuries of Christmas tradition among the various Christian countries of Europe, and probably draws on pagan traditions before that. So also does Father Christmas, who has separate origins but is now merged with Santa.

Coca Cola (and Pepsi, and others) certainly helped commercialise things but invent Santa they did not.

 

[egb_hibs]

Christmas as ‘we know it’ was not born in the 1930s either, though perhaps contributed to some of the gross materialism of today. It was not celebrated in Calvinist Scotland (hence the popularity of Hogmanay) but is documented as a time of feasting and merriment going waaaay back.