This Christmas I buy Coca Cola

[winodog]

Mr Peanut just wished me a merry Christmas on the one eyed hypnotist.

[Stonewall Jackson]

I was rather surprised by a cartoon I saw earlier this week. It was the Justice League holiday special and it mentioned Christmas left and right. It even had a scene of a church and you could hear Christian carols coming from within.

[Indie]

And after all these good kudos, the Christmas 2004 Coke can says "HOLIDAY 2004"

Nobody is ever quite as wonderful or altruistic as they seem, including corporations, and yes, including Coca Cola.

[Racehorse]

And after all these good kudos, the Christmas 2004 Coke can says "HOLIDAY 2004"

My coke can does not even say that.  It is just flashes the old standard Coke Classic.  I still appreciate their Merry Christmas advertising campaign and will reward them by buying their product, even if the next purchase says "HOLIDAY 2004" or "CLASSIC COKE."  Because . . . they deserve it!

Nobody is ever quite as wonderful or altruistic as they seem, including corporations, and yes, including Coca Cola.

Nobody said any different.  One poster even charged coke with enriching Arafat and indirectly underwriting Hamas suicide bombers.

As I said and still say:

After watching a Coca Cola advertisement this evening, I've decided to purchase goods or services only from advertisers using "Merry Christmas" in their commercials and advertisements. If they don't have the right Christmas spirit, I can't use their products.

"Merry Christmas" Coca Cola - buy

Please add your good guys to the list.

Merry Christmas, Indie and all!

[Prime Choice]

I'm talking about the American Santa Claus.

Did some checking. Seems the claim that "Coca-Cola essentially created Santa Claus" is false.

http://www.snopes.com/cokelore/santa.asp

[MAWG]

Wouldnt think of drinking anything else. Only yankees and Nigerians drink pepsi.

[FreedomCalls]

I quoted Snopes in my post:

Coca-Cola had a great deal to do with establishing Santa Claus as a ubiquitous Christmas figure in America at a time when the holiday was still making the transition from a religious observance to a largely secular and highly commercial celebration. In an era before color television (or commercial television of any kind), color films, and the widespread use of color in newspapers, it was Coca-Cola's magazine advertisements, billboards, and point-of-sale store displays that exposed nearly everyone in America to the modern Santa Claus image. Coca-Cola certainly helped make Santa Claus one of the most popular men in America.

Coke certainly popularized Santa Claus to the exclusion of St. Nicholas, Kris Kringle, Father Christmas, and so forth. And today when you think of the way Santa Claus looks, you think of an image not far from Coke's. You wouldn't dream of putting him in a blue coat for instance like this:

Or having him in a great coat rather than a short one:

Or in a Bishop's mitre:

Now would you. And why is that?