Message-Id: <199712221148.GAA25594@camel14.mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 1997 07:00:26 -0400
To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
From: bbenzon@mindspring.com (Bill Benzon)
Subject: Re: Coke and Santa Meme
>Santa Claus has only worn traditional red and white costume since Coca Cola
>ran an ad campaign to make Coca Cola the Christmea drink/mixer in the 60's,
>and decided they could "own" him by dressing him up in their colours.
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>Is this virulent meme/urban legend founded upon "real" events???
Coke may have run such an add campaign in the 60s, but Santa was dressed in
red and white when I was a child in the 50s.
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