Ei juhlaa ilman mainontaa...

[outsider]

Dear abc Customer,

From our family to yours - have a Happy Thanksgiving!

If you find some time between the turkey sandwiches, football games and family fun this holiday weekend, stop by abc for some special savings.

Että sellaista ja ei kun kiitospäivää vain kaikille 8)

PS. Voisin vaikka kalkkunan ostaa viikonlopuksi jos saan erään asiakkaan huomenna

[heifetz]

Kiitospäivää? Eiköhän tämä ole ihan suomalainen foorumi ja tuskin täällä nyt kovin moni viettää moista peri-amerikkalaista juhlaa..

[outsider]

onhan meillä McDonalds, CocaCola ja farkutkin ym

PS. Ja Joulupukin kuvakin on alkujaan CocaColan mainoksesa

[pontifex]

"Joulupukin kuvakin on alkujaan CocaColan mainoksesa"

Öhöm. Punanuttuinen ja valkopartainen joulupukki ei nyt todellakaan ole CacaColon eikä ylipäätäänsä amerikkalainen keksintö.

Antakaa nyt sentään amerikkalaisten juhlia omia juhliaan ja juhlikaame me omiamme.

[Jamac]

Öhöm. Punanuttuinen ja valkopartainen joulupukki ei nyt todellakaan ole CacaColon eikä ylipäätäänsä amerikkalainen keksintö.

No ei se ainakaan suomalainen ole. Punainen väri on tullut suomalaiseen jouluun nimenomaan Coca Colan mukana. Suomalaisen joulupukin värit on perinteisesti olleet jonkinsortin maavärejä, ruskeaa ja sensellaista.

[AppleFarmer]

At the beginning of the 1930s, the burgeoning Coca-Cola company was still looking for ways to increase sales of their product during winter, then a slow time of year for the soft drink market. They turned to a talented commercial illustrator named Haddon Sundblom, who created a series of memorable drawings that associated the figure of a larger than life, red-and-white garbed Santa Claus with Coca-Cola. Coke's annual advertisements — featuring Sundblom-drawn Santas holding bottles of Coca-Cola, drinking Coca-Cola, receiving Coca-Cola as gifts, and especially enjoying Coca-Cola — became a perennial Christmastime feature which helped spur Coca-Cola sales throughout the winter (and produced the bonus effect of appealing quite strongly to children, an important segment of the soft drink market). The success of this advertising campaign has helped fuel the legend that Coca-Cola actually invented the image of the modern Santa Claus, decking him out in a red-and-white suit to promote the company colors — or that at the very least, Coca-Cola chose to promote the red-and-white version of Santa Claus over a variety of competing Santa figures in order to establish it as the accepted image of Santa Claus.

This legend is not true. Although some versions of the Santa Claus figure still had him attired in various colors of outfits past the beginning of the 20th century, the jolly, ruddy, sack-carrying Santa with a red suit and flowing white whiskers had become the standard image of Santa Claus by the 1920s, several years before Sundlom drew his first Santa illustration for Coca-Cola. As The New York Times reported on 27 November 1927:

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

[pontifex]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Santa_Claus:

The modern Santa Claus is a composite character made up from the merging of two quite separate figures. The first of these is Saint Nicholas of Myra, a bishop of Byzantine Anatolia (now in modern-day Turkey) famous for his generous gifts to the poor. In Europe he is still portrayed as a bearded bishop in canonical robes. The second character is Father Christmas, which remains the British name for Santa Claus. Father Christmas dates back at least as far as the 17th century in Britain, and pictures of him survive from that era, portraying him as a well-nourished bearded man dressed in a long, green, fur-lined robe. He typified the spirit of good cheer at Christmas, and was reflected in the 'Spirit of Christmas Present' in Charles Dickens' famous story, A Christmas Carol.


When the Dutch still owned the land that later became New York, they brought the Saint Nicholas' eve legend with them to the Americas, but without the red mantle and other symbols. Note that in Dutch, the feast is called 'sinterklaas feest' and it celebrates the birthday of sinterklaas during sinterklaasavond ("sinterklaas's evening" ) on December 5th or in Belgium on December 6th.


Sinterklaas was Americanized to "Santa Claus" but lost his bishop's apparel, and was at first pictured as a thick bellied Dutch sailor with a pipe in a green winter coat. Santa Claus appeared in various colored costumes as he gradually became amalgamated with the figure of Father Christmas, but red soon became popular after he appeared wearing such on an 1885 Christmas card. His horse was converted to reindeer and a sleigh, the black peters (which were in fact Moorish slaves) were converted to elves, and, in an attempt to move the origin of the festivities away from their pagan background to a more Christian one, the date was moved forward a few weeks to the celebrated day of the birth of Jesus: Christmas.


Santa's image was further modernized by the Coca-Cola company, which at the turn of the 20th century featured the character in a variety of advertising campaigns. The final version was designed in 1931 by the American artist Haddon Sundblom, who used the Swedish Tomte as a model for Santa. These campaigns helped establish a "uniform" Santa character, whereas prior to this his appearance and costume had varied from artist to artist.

[Jamac]

Mun käsittääkseni suomalaisen joulupukin juuret menee lähinnä Venäjälle päin?

Joulupukkihan on Suomessa alkuperältään pakanallinen, ja joulu on/oli pakanallinen juhla. Mm. nuoret saivat vapauksia seksin suhteen joulunaikoihin (tästä on sananlaskukin: "Mikä jouluna tehhään se SillonjaSillon nähhään"[9 kk]). Kristinuskon tullessa kuvioihin Jeesuksen syntymäpäivä yhytettiin jouluun jotta kansa saatiin helpommin siirtymään kristinuskoon (tämähän pätee myös pääsiäisen viettoon). Joulupukit oli lähinnä kiertolaisia jotka pukivat päälleen sarvet ja nurinkäännetyn turkin. Joulupukkeja kestittiin ja joulupukki otti vapauksia mm. talon naisten suhteen. Piparkakkujen muotitkin ovat alkuperältään pakanallisia ja liittyy muinaisiin kansanuskoihin, nykyisin piparkakkujen muotit on malleiltaan pikkuisen vapaampia...



Mph, vielä, "tietoni" CocaCola joulupukista Suomessa perustuu vaan yhden vanhan herran kertomukseen siitä, että kun Cokis Suomeen tuli ilmeisesti Olympiakisojen yhteydessä, niin sen jälkeen Suomessa joulupukit alkoi muuttua punaisiksi.