R.I.P. SOSMIX?

[SobranieCocktail]

I can't find it anywhere! I tried some shitey imitation the other day and it was NO GOOD.

I need lovely Sosmix.

at bacon flavour sosmix.

at bacon flavour anything.

I still love smokey bacon crisps. Om nom nom.

It was a happy day in our household when my mum bought the Cranks cookbook and we started to live off cheese and lentil wedge and buckwheat bake rather than crappy meat substitutes. There was some dreadful fungal thing which was supposed to be like beef - but so wasn't!

Oh no! Only last week I unearthed a antique slightly out of date pack from the depths of the kitchen cupboards during a huge cleaning blitz.

I used to love Sosmix -we used to make a sausage roll type thing with cubes of cheese in -it was gorgeous.

I am sure I saw some recently in Holland & Barret.

TheFallenMadonna -are you thinking of TVP?

You used to be able to get a "beef flavoured" one that was dark brown or a neutral one that tasted of cardboard that was paler.

I have had a ferret on the 'tin-ternet and it seems that they have just changes the formula - it now has milk products in it. Lots of very unhappy vegans out there.

oh, and I'm with you on the at anything bacon flavoured

It was great for scotch eggs.

That's the one.

shudder

No. It wasn't!

Wondering if the addition of milk products might have improved the flavour. And thinking no, probably not...

Not great for scotch eggs that is. Sosmix scotch eggs were the overriding horror of my teenage years.

Sosmix can be bought direct from here:

www.alternativestores.com/vegan-vegetarian-shopping/

found it here x with a ton of flavours = www.veggiestuff.com/meat-alternatives/vegetarian-vegan-sausages#/sort=p.sort_order/order=ASC/limit=20

Oh mum used to make me sausages, sausage rolls and scotch eggs with Sosmix when I was a teenage veggie. Fond memories of squishy pink mix.

Does any one remember the packets of dried chilli flavoured bean mix? I cannot remember what they were called but they were really portable and just added boiling water to 'cook'. I took them to festivals for easy eats.

Beanfeast,bigmouth ? I ate A LOT of that.

Beanfeast? I remember my mum buying packs and packs of those from the health food shop in town along with sosmix, burgamix(?) and bagging up banana chips and random seed mixes that were kept in massive barrels with scoops.

Yes!! Beanfeast ! Thank you yes I ate many packs myself - I can still taste' it in my memory! None of this Quorn nonsense!

I feel your pain!

Wow, this thread brings back memories...we used to take Beanfeast on Duke of Edinburgh expeditions. Loved the bolognese one.

Sainsbury's used to do brill vege bolognese in tins...

We weren't vegan back in the 80s,but I am now. My mum used to buy sos mix for some reason. And vitam-r. I would never decide whether I loved vitam-r or whether it tasted a bit like wee smelled.

And if it's vegan Sausage rolls you want, the Linda McCartney ones are gorgeous and quite cheap (compared to the 'meaty' Gregg's equivalent)

Yeah, it was discontinued a while ago.

Decades ago! I am still in mourning.