What a wonderful, hot summer’s day! Everyone is fed up, but I love it because that's when I'm the most popular. Everyone loves the way I refresh them with my bubbles. I love it that the kids here call me “spiky water” instead of soda water. I cannot complain about the other periods of the year either, because the Hungarians really love me. Since 2013, I have also been recognized as a “Hungaricum” under the name 'szikvíz'. A Hungaricum is what we call special Hungarian products. I have a precise definition, here: "Soda water is drinking water enriched with carbon dioxide, which is bottled under high pressure in closed-system technology in saltwater bottles with siphon heads or in soda water balloons with siphon heads." Consequently, for example, carbonated mineral water cannot be considered soda water, but before my invention, these carbonated mineral waters, also called "wine water" (because they were also used to dilute wine), were drunk. Who knows, maybe that is what inspired the monk Ányos Jedlik, who first produced soda water in 1826, and then in 1841 founded the first soda water factory in Pest-Buda. At the same time, it is not true that he invented the entire process, but the large-scale production of soda water in Hungary is associated with his name. He also realized that if soda water is extracted from the bottom of the bottle with a tube, more carbonic acid remains in it. In short, this is how I became an indispensable accessory at Hungarian tables and in spritzers, and a favourite of children. Who doesn't want raspberry syrup frothed with cold soda?