Kiss Imre: Szódavíz, egy magyar kultuszital, Szikvíz ipartörténeti album (Budapest, 2008)

Húsvéti spricc Easter squish Az apjára ütött Taking after Father Osztrák képeslap, 19. század vége Austrian postcard end of the 19th cent with some lady in the deep of a wine hole, you drink, if you are fit or you think so, 200 ml wine with 700 ml sparkling soda water. And then, when the first signals of trouble or warning turn up, the era of small fröccs sets in. But as you can hardly accept the unchangeable, as I can see it in your case: you ask for two glasses of small fröccs at a time. Krúdy started to meditate about why educated humanity does not know the mixture of 200 ml wine with 200 ml soda. This makes us to try corrugating this lack of knowledge for several centuries by saying: drink 700 ml wine with 100 ml soda straight one after the other. And in the end, when things are irreversible, said the elderly man, you have this - lifting his glass partly empty - the small fröccs. The lonely, modest, everyday small fröccs, liable to sin, still massive, proud and strong. 700 ml wine and 700 ml soda together. Almost nothing. And yet: it has everything in it. Well, to you!" And the old man drained it in one go, and giving a huge sight, put down his glass to make complete the small group of the other 7 7 glasses. " Besides other genres, folkloristic rhymes and almost corny-like, conventional works also have something to tell us about soda water, the bottle, or what they are good for. They usually use a nice and comic or joking style to express their relationship to the beloved drink, or for what purposes it can be used.