The soda is a wonderful drink. When it’s freshly poured, the carbon dioxide jumps up into your nose and then tingles wonderfully in your throat. Drinking from the bottle brings tears to the eyes of those who don’t stop in time, and that can happen because of sheer greed. At least it could, on those happy childhood days in the 80s, when there was a cracker, as they say in Bavaria.
Because a lemonade – yes, a lemonade, “that” is the correct article for lemonade in some regions of Bavaria – was reserved for special occasions, perhaps at lunch in the tavern for grandma’s birthday or at the fire brigade festival. A yellow soda was especially good because it was even rarer than the white one that was occasionally found around the house. But only because the adults mixed it with beer.
Usually there was apple juice. The murky, self-pressed one, for which health-conscious city dwellers would have paid a lot of money back then – and the children from back then do the same today. But back then we would have preferred to get a soda more often.
Today there are drinks of all colors that taste like things that are not necessarily of natural origin. Or what is the plant basis of a liquid that is blue and called “Mountain Blast”? Because of the consumption of such broth, some children will not even recognize the lack of the kind that is threatening us right now: The carbonic acid is running out, which is why the first breweries in Bavaria have stopped producing lemonade. But there was no outcry, so at least it should be formulated here: No more noise, that’s not possible!
It may be due to a certain deadening, the energy crisis is bringing all sorts of restrictions with it. Firewood is becoming more expensive, gas is scarce, mustard is about to run out, and so is paper. Who even thinks about carbonic acid? So now breweries are leaving out soda and water in order to at least be able to continue producing beer. In terms of the Bavarian cheers and coziness cliché, that’s probably logical.
Just lucky that the folk festival season is coming to an end and the beer for the Wiesn has long been brewed. Otherwise there would even be a beer crisis. And such a thing would probably take on unforeseeable proportions.