Coke vs. Pepsi | The Food That Built America (S2, E14)

When candy company president Charles Guth gets shafted by a Cola salesman, he decides to buy a bankrupt rival company and go to war with the supplier who wronged him and its new CEO. In Season 2, Episode 14, "The Rise of a Rival." For generations of Americans, food titans like Henry Heinz, Milton...

43 min - Food & Drink - HISTORY

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