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

csak a pezsgőktől, mert nem a gyomorba száll alá, hogy ott ismét gerjessze étvágyunk. „Fölfelé megy", a fejünkbe száll, s ott fejti ki hatását - ez legalább biztosan igaz. Ki hallott már „fröccshasról"? - kérdezhetnénk ironizálva, de nem tesszük, mert a sörpártiakkal is jó viszony kialakításra törekszünk. Mondják, hogy a fröccs elterjedése a borbarátok válasza volt a 19. század utolsó harmadában divattá vált sörözésre, de mi azt gondoljuk, hogy a választás inkább ízlés és szokás dolga, nem pedig tudatosan folytatott csatározásé. A kiállítás létrejöttében elévülhetetlen érdeme van dr. Draveczky Balázs, sokak szeretve tisztelt néhai „Balázs Mestere" egyik tanulmányának, melynek a frappáns „Fröccstörténelem" címet adta. Ebből kiindulva kezdtem el ,Panoráma Vendéglő", Dunaújváros, 1964 ,Restaurant Panoráma" at Dunaújváros, 1964 And Vörösmarty is believed to have recommended Jedlik, the „Father of Soda", when he offered him a spriccer, to call this drink „fröccs" in Hungarian. If the story of the new word were true, it would well fit in with the lines of the definitely Hungarian-style poem. Vörösmarty would not have dropped it even if a rhyme to it can hardly be found. It seems to be probable that the word pearl symbolizes the bubbles going up in fresh wine and what is eve more disturbing: it has been confirmed that the poem had been published earlier. And anyway, Jedlik's presence is also very doubtful, and our linguists say that the word spriccer spread in Hungary from the 1870s, while our brilliant echo word fröccs did so only after 1890. A legend may have vanished but some years ago, soon after the temporary exhibition on soda, Győr was promoted the city of fröccs, because Jedlik's soda water is likely to have been mixed with wine there those days. It is feasible but hardly justifiable, and no scientific proofs are needed that any city (e.g. Miskolc, which housed the exhibition as well) should hold „Fröccs Days" in the coming Summers. There is enough reason to prove the fact that we, Hungarians, love soda water at any time of the day and independent from where we are! Mixing wine with water does occur in other cultures too, so much so that e.g. Ancient Greeks considered barbarians those who drank plain wine. We do not know by whom, when, where and to what extent wine was mixed with the early types of soda, mineral, or wine-water, but it is true that fröccs, this old thirst quenching drink, which is considered more healthy than