[Jerome Betts]

Graham, I look forward to your TV debut.

Kallo's very low salt organic vegetable stock cubes have now sprouted verse too, claiming they will be 'just the thing to make your soup sing!'

The stock vegetables that lived on the farm
Were cool and laid back, placid and calm.
They liked to stay home and play on their drums.
They rarely went out with their fruit and veg chums.
But they always went wild whn they played in their band,
And they rocked out in veg plots all over the land.

Perhaps D & A should come to this German product's aid?

Thes stock cubes are faultless
And practically saltless!
They combine piquant savour
With a nice herby flavour,
And will cause soup and King
To melodiously sing!

I'm sure somebody can do better than that.

[Jerome Betts]

The Kallo rhymer has been at it again with organic garlic and herb stock cubes and ditto French onion.

Whoop-de- Wooh, In A Vegetable Stew!

The garlic declared, "I'm ever so blue!
I'm all on my own, alas it is true."
"Cheer up, said the carrot, "and hang on a jot.
"You'll go ever so well with some herbs from the plot."
The garlic and herbs were friends right on cue
And they went very well in a vegetable stew.

For a French Onion Soup That's Fit For A Whoop

"Well 'allo," said the onion.
"I've just come from France."
The asparagus swooned,
she was all in a trance.

The beetroot turned red,
she was quite in a flap,
For this Gallic onion
was a most handsome chap.

Nevertheless, the cubes are very good.

[Chris O'Carroll]

Kallo cubes have begun to put verse on their chicken stock and beef stock packaging.

When you first posted that, Jerome, I had visions of micro-poems printed on the wrappers around individual cubes:

Boiling stove-top pot.
Cube plops in, starts to dissolve --
Fragrant water sounds.

But that would be silly. I wonder how soon one of the magazines will announce a food packaging poems comp.

[Brian Allgar]

Ah, a new art-form, Chris. You could call it a Haikube.

[Brian Allgar]

I wonder how much they'd pay me to suppress this one?

McDonalds, thrifty, never wasteful,
Ecological and tasteful,
Brings you burgers free from fats
Made from non-bubonic rats.

[Rob Stuart]

Kallo cubes! Kallo cubes!
They’re made of scabs and monkey pubes
With lashings of coyote sick
To make your soup turn nice and thick.

[Douglas G. Brown]

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.