[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.

[Ann Drysdale]

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.

[Jerome Betts]

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?

[Douglas G. Brown]

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”.