Santa Claus, Coca-Cola, Sprite, and vast amounts of cookies

I was wrong when I mentioned that Coca-Cola created our modern image of Santa Claus [1]— it goes back into the mid-to-late 1800s [2]. But Coca-Cola's Santa Claus advertising might have been the inspiration for Sprite.

And speaking of Santa and food products, here's a video that answers the question no one bothered to ask, how many cookies does Santa Claus consume on Christmas? [3] It's amazing he even survives the trip.