Enjoy our Kallo all-beef bouillon cubes
(Available in handy 6 ounce box),
They bring to gourmet chefs or artless rubes
The concentrated essence of an ox.

That last line is a joy. You'll never know how much I needed to laugh like that at this precise moment.

And Oh, it's rhymed with "box"!

The tiny throbbing sound you hear is me, drumming my heels on the carpet.

Ha! Nice one, Douglas. A legit rhyme for cubes in your neck of the woods and a resonant last line worthy of a better cause. (Ann, you beat me to it.)

What with this and Chris O' C's haikube (thank you, Brian) and Rob and others' offerings it feels like the birth of a notion, the Cubist School of Comic and Curious Verse.

Incidentally, I think OXO is still around, but the UNOX advertised on enamel signs left over from previous decades in my youth ,and which provided predictable scope for schoolboy wit, is not, and probably wasn't then, whatever it was. A distant cousin of SPAM, perhaps, such as you can still buy?

Jerome,
"birth of a notion" !
You'll have DW Griffith rolling in his grave.

Our latest entry in the bouillon line
Electrifies the gourmet cooking scene,
And breaks new ground in how the world will dine;
We’ve dubbed it simply “Kallo’s Soylent Green”.