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I saw a show on Food Network or the History Channel about the history of soda in the US and they said Pepsi rose to number 3 in the US during the depression era from people doing that. A bottle of Coca-Cola was something like 5¢ for an 8oz bottle and Pepsi was also 5¢ but for a 16oz bottle. If you had guests over people would offer them a Coke but pour the glass in the kitchen from a Pepsi bottle then bring the glass out to wherever the guest was sitting.
The number 2 cola in the era was Moxie, but it declined in the soda fountain era. Originally it was only sold in bottles. If the soda jerk gave an extra pump of syrup with Coke or Pepsi it wasn’t a big deal, maybe even better. Get the ratio wrong on Moxie, though, and it was apparently bad.
If you saw on the History channel, likely the show "Foods that made America" or something similar. I've seen lots of it and they explain that and how the coke originated. Eventually the fights of the brands and how all that played out.
It's nice series. I've seen the McDonald's too, the pizzahut, burguer king, etc. There's also the episodes about the chocolatea and beers. There's another variant of the series which is about Toys and things like that.