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The shortage also affected Asahi's soft drinks, such as ginger beer and soda water.

Neighbours recognised the first-generation daughter of immigrant parents from El Salvador, as as a girl who would visit the corner store almost daily to buy candy and soda, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Matthews was assigned to work on developing a proprietary soda flavor.

“I needed $2.60 to go get two slices of pizza and a soda, and I just thought: That’s the thing that I want. That was the thing that mattered to me,” he said.

“I needed $2.60 to go get two slices of pizza and a soda, and I just thought: That’s the thing that I want. That was the thing that mattered to me,” he said.