[thechat] santa question - quickie

[Ben Dyer]

At 04:22 PM 11/25/2002, you wrote:
> > Wasn't santa invented in, like, 1920 or something?
>
>The current westernized Santa, the fat man with white beard, was
>invented by the Coca-Cola Bottling company as part of their advertising
>campaigns, I believe back in the '20s. Before that, Kris Kringle, the
>European version, tall and thin, was the icon of Christmas....

Nope.

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

--Ben