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Every holiday season, the rumor returns: “Coca-Cola invented the modern Santa Claus.”
In this episode, we untangle one of Christmas’s most enduring myths. We explore what Santa looked like before Coca-Cola — from European folklore to Thomas Nast’s 19th-century illustrations — and then reveal how Coca-Cola’s 1930s ad campaign transformed Santa into the warm, rosy-cheeked figure we know today.

Discover how artist Haddon Sundblom’s iconic Coke paintings didn’t create Santa, but popularized and humanized him so powerfully that the world adopted his version. This is the story of how tradition, art, and advertising blended into the Santa that lives in our holiday imagination.

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