The drink made from soda and wine was included in the Hungaricums last October, and we can delight the fans of the juice with a little mix of curiosities.
Wine has been mixed with water for thousands of years. The spread of soda in Hungary is due to Ános Jedlik, a Benedictine teacher from Győr, to whose name the large-scale production of soda water can be linked. The fama believes that it was first blended with wine soda in 1842, during the Fót harvest.
Mihály Vörösmarty also appeared in a harvesting company, then wrote the song Fóti. Ányos Jedlik showed those present - among others Lajos Kossuth - how wine paints with soda, said Tibor Németh, the president of the Rotary Club in Győr on Kossuth Radio's Dawn Landscape. Jedlik called it a squirt, as any ordinary German would say. Of course, Redmarty didn't like it very much, and he invented the very apt sound-mimicking word, the splatter, he added.
The culture of splatter consumption has changed a lot since 1842. While in the past white wines were mixed with soda, today they are happy to ask for a splash of rosé.
(Source: marmalade.co.uk, gastronomes.co.uk | Image: pixabay.com)