# Did your parents tell you Santana was real when you were little? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 10, 2013, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999 "2013-12-10T18:33:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Zago](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecccb3/32.png) [@Zago](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zago)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/41 "2013-12-11T01:28:31Z")
My parents never told me Santa did or didn’t exist, Santa was sort of a popular culture thing. It worked out alright because I never had to think my parents lied to me. Oh God! SANTANA! I need to read a little more carefully before posting. ---
**Author:** ![seal\_cleaner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e274bd/32.png) [@seal\_cleaner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/seal_cleaner)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/42 "2013-12-11T01:33:06Z")
They only spoke of Devadip. ---
**Author:** ![Doug\_K](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5ac83/32.png) [@Doug\_K](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Doug_K)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/43 "2013-12-11T02:20:54Z")
Not only did they tell me it was real, they took me there a few times. (I grew up about 40 miles away.) ---
**Author:** ![Cub\_Mistress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ea666f/32.png) [@Cub\_Mistress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cub_Mistress)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/44 "2013-12-11T02:29:38Z")
Yes, my father once bought me a Santana record! And I LIKED IT! ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/45 "2013-12-11T03:12:28Z")
> [@LC\_Strawhouse](#): > > I thought Tito Santana was cool, and my family never told me that WWF Wrestling wasn’t “real”… I had to learn that on the playground. Tito is just a myth invented to explain why bad things happen. Why didn’t Sgt Slaughter win the 1991 championship? It’s Tito’s fault. Why did Yugoslavia leave the Warsaw Pact? It’s Tito’s fault. Why were ticket prices for the Unity Tour so high? It’s Tito’s fault. ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/46 "2013-12-11T03:38:36Z")
When I was a kid, there was no Santana. We had to make do with Desi Arnaz. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/47 "2013-12-11T03:54:31Z")
Santana wasn’t real when I was little, so my parents didn’t tell me about them; I had to have my own religious experience of them. Since I discovered them before I started drinking and smoking dope, I’m reasonably convinced I didn’t imagine their existence while stoned. They are real, I tell you. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/48 "2013-12-11T03:56:42Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > When I was a kid, there was no Santana. We had to make do with Desi Arnaz. You should cross-post this to the “Was it really better ‘back in the day’” thread, as convincing evidence to the contrary. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/49 "2013-12-11T03:58:28Z")
My dad had a scar on his leg and told me that he got it when Santa shot him. I believed that for a LOOONNNGGG time. ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 3:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/50 "2013-12-11T03:59:55Z")
> [@Doug\_K](#): > > Not only did they tell me it was real, they took me there a few times. (I grew up about 40 miles away.) My mother grew up in Arkansas City, but apparently her family was in denial about the existence of Satanta, because none of them ever mentioned it to me. ---
**Author:** ![scratch\_llll](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9fc348/32.png) [@scratch\_llll](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scratch_llll)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/51 "2013-12-11T04:11:30Z")
My parents left milk and cookies for Santana and it ruined my life. ---
**Author:** ![njtt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ecd19e/32.png) [@njtt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/njtt)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 4:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/52 "2013-12-11T04:28:08Z")
Well no. I only just found out now. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 6:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/53 "2013-12-11T06:03:15Z")
I’m Jewish, so my parents never told me about Santana. I never heard of them until I saw “Woodstock”. ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 6:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/54 "2013-12-11T06:26:05Z")
I’ve been through the desert on a cat with no name. But nobody warned me what a mess there would be, what with all the sand said cat tracked into my home all over the carpet. Nobody told me about Sandy Claws. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/55 "2013-12-11T07:07:51Z")
I remember cotton, wool, artificial fabrics, etc., but I don’t think I ever wore satin. Perhaps a tie or two, but probably not. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/56 "2013-12-11T07:20:07Z")
Sometimes we had satin ribbon on dresses. Sometimes tied in our hair as children. I cannot think of a single whole garment made of satin, though. ---
**Author:** ![don\_t\_ask](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@don\_t\_ask](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/don_t_ask)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/57 "2013-12-11T07:23:47Z")
My parents told me that Santana was made up by an advertising agency and was only depicted with long hair and facial hair to encourage young people to use their product, coke. ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 7:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/58 "2013-12-11T07:33:29Z")
I know Santana is real. I met him once! ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 7:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/59 "2013-12-11T07:53:26Z")
Yes. Eventually I realized it was a useless fabric and so, by extension, all fabrics were useless. That’s why I am now a lifelong nudist (although some of us prefer the term “fright”) and, in fact, I am naked as I post right now. ---
**Author:** ![Lucky\_13](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lucky_13/32/13209_2.png) [@Lucky\_13](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucky_13)\ **Post date:** [December 11, 2013, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999/60 "2013-12-11T08:10:19Z")
My older cousin would tell me stories about Santana, but I always thought it was just crazy talk, because I heard his music, but no one I knew had ever seen him in person. Then this morning I found out a guy my dad knows was on the phone with him yesterday. Who knows, maybe this Christmas I’ll finally get an actual glimpse of this mysterious, magical creature. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/did-your-parents-tell-you-santana-was-real-when-you-were-little/675999.md?page=4)