Kiss Imre: Szódavíz, egy magyar kultuszital, Szikvíz ipartörténeti album (Budapest, 2008)
..mo$tpwfigvtoo «Hévfcgyvt it vímio a pofont! Szikvíz úr kalandjai (Lányi Imre rajza) The adventures of Mr. Szikvíz (drawing by Imre Lányi) The one-time owner of the soda factory named after Petőfi at Balatonkenese, István Miklós had what to say about it, and spoke from his experience when he compared the advantages and disadvantages of a cart pulled by a horse or a donkey. He thinks that for distributing soda within the settlement a donkey is better company. It is cheaper, the costs of keeping are lower, a groom is able to control it, is not too demanding and does not catch strangles. As he states, a donkey is cleverer, does not go wild (a horse like that may cause a lot of damage by breaking the bottles), and is not so obstinate! Hearing all that we would like to use the saying reversed: „In lack of a donkey a horse will do as well". About all this we can read in the Soda Makers' Gazette, and describes the beginning of the past century. The national and rural papers published by soda makers teach us a lot about the early days, although their titles changed according to the interests of different groupings. The writings and advertisings give us a real picture; history itself comes to life if we look at things through the glasses of the industry. The laws and orders on manufacturing and selling soda water, and also published in the papers, the changes and reactions can be easily traced back and understood. An outstanding collector of this field, Gyula László Fekete from Salgótarján made possible for us through his exhaustive work to get an insight into the local regulations not published in the national organs, e.g. the taxes levied on soda making and marketing by the village Széchény in 1938. We can find some much more amusing literature than boring data and severe conflicts, if we read about the adventures of „Mr Soda", a nice caricature (earlier published on the pages of the popular daily evening paper „Az Est") in the soda makers' paper „Szikvízipar Lapja". We are even more
