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Fun fact:

In 1888, John Pemberton sold the ownership rights of his 'French-Corsican coca wine' (wine & cocaine) 'Coca-Cola' recipe to Asa Griggs Candler, a (German-Jewish) businessman, who redeveloped the brand significantly by 1892-94, selling Cola syrup and bottled colas as an over-the-counter dietary supplement for an upset stomach, though for regular consumption in sodas, which made him rich. In 1910 he destroyed the early records of the company (which likely included evidence of the highly addictive contents of the Cola, some of which had been removed by 1910). In the late 19th century and well into the 1960s, soda fountains were in pharmacies (many if not most of them owned by German-Jewish families). In 1919, Coca-Cola Co. was purchased by a group of investors led by Ernest Woodruff's Trust Company, which sold shares in the company. Woodruff was not Jewish, but there were Jewish founders of this massive Trust Co. in Georgia: John M. Green, Joel Hurt, H. L. Atwater, W. A. Hansell, T. J. Hightower, J. G. Oglesby, J. D. Turner, John B. Daniel, Joseph Hirsch, Leon Lieberman, Louis Wellhouse, A. J. McBride, D. O. Dougherty, W. A. Gregg, W. W. Draper, A. C. Hook, W. T. Ashford, George W. Brooke, C. I. Branan, and C. D. Montgomery. That company would market Coca-Cola along with images similar to Thomas Nast's 1863 Santa, creating their own version of that Santa by 1934. Germans and the Dutch converted an ancient winter gift-giving tradition to a Christmas gift-giving tradition in the early 19th century, with a Christmas tree and stories of various versions of Sinterklaas, who initially wasn't so jolly. By the late 19th century, there were jolly Santa Clauses in Europe and the US. The German-Jewish connection to all of this is the Coca-Cola marketing of sodas with cocaine & opium, followed by Coca-Cola marketing with the American version of Santa Claus in the 1920s.