Bring it Back!

Staying on a vegetarian diet has often been difficult for me, as I live in a household of mostly carnivores.  I’ve become much better at making tasty tofu dishes, but often it helps if I have good meat substitutes handy that I can take to that picnic or barbecue.  There are, fortunately, many products on the market…some good, many not.  So far, I haven’t had that much luck finding a sausage substitute that I really like — except for the Boca Bratwurst.  Put it on a bun, add some onions and condiments and — yum! — it satisfied my bratwurst craving (and led a family member to question wBoca Brawursthy I had started eating meat again).

There was one store in my area that had carried these, and, at some point, I realized they were no longer there.  Being a procrastinator, I put off asking about where they’d gone, assuming the store had just stopped carrying them or they were out of stock.  They never came back.  Finally, I got active (well, the word active is debatable as all it entailed was me getting online) to find out what had happened to the Boca Brats, only to find that they had discontinued their whole sausage line.

There’s an online petition here to save the Boca Brats and you can also join a Facebook group to save the Boca Brats (or you can call 1-877-966-8769 to contact Boca Products, now owned by Kraft, I understand).  At this writing, the petition has only 369 signatures, which I doubt will be enough to get these puppies back on the shelves…but one can always hope.