The Food That Built America

Season 5, Episode 11

Episode Title: Citrus Soda Stars

Air Date: 2024-07-21

Overview:

A small-time St. Louis soda maker, Charles Leiper Grigg, takes on Coke and Pepsi by introducing a clear, lemon-lime soda he calls 7-Up. At the same time, two brothers in Tennessee, Ali and Barney Hartman, have their own, called Mountain Dew.