Since the interwar period, but especially during the communist era, Romanians always had a siphon bottle at the table. Together with the wine it creates the famous ‘spritz’ for adults, and the children drink the soda combined with fruit syrups or even jam.

Thick glass siphons are manufactured in various cooperatives in the country. For a small fee, accessible to any Romanian, they can be filled in shops called "Sifonarii" in larger cities or communes. Most of the time, the children are the ones who are sent to sit in line and fill the siphons.

Siphon fillers use tap water, sometimes chilled, and carbon dioxide. Due to the pressure, sometimes a siphon explodes when loading, while the shop worker maneuvers the filling machine. Myths of the devastating siphon explosions are beginning to circulate. In reality, what is a problem is the resulting shards, not the explosion, and the siphons begin to be covered with a strong, protective metal mesh.

In the mid-1970s, the auto-siphon, produced at the ELTIM company in Timisoara, appears on the market. Made of stainless steel, it has a threaded support at the top in which a "capsule" is mounted, a small steel bottle that can be refilled with carbon dioxide at high pressure. The new model is the envy of the neighbors, but not rightly so, because filling the capsules is not always a success and 2-3 capsules are needed to obtain a quality siphon.

After the Revolution, siphons gradually disappeared from the market, being present until the end of the '90s. The same cannot be said of “spritz”, which is still highly regarded at regular meals, this time made with carbonated mineral water.