to think a cube has to be cube-shaped?

[piellabakewell]

I just opened a new box of Oxo 'cubes'. Inside the lid it says 'new shape cubes'. A cube is a cube, surely? Now the stock 'cubes' are like a 3D x shape, so they are no longer cubes at all.

Are you saying they are cuboids (2 square faces, 4 rectangular)?

They've been that shape for ages.

They claim that they're the same amount of OXO, but they can't be because they're the same size cubes, but with the little bits missing to make it X shaped. There has to be less OXO or it wouldn't work The green ones are now rock hard and difficult to crumble too!

They've been like that for a while, maybe the shop has a low turnover of oxo?

I do think Oxo are probably saving millions of £££ though, they HAVE to be smaller surely?

Can't say I've noticed in the tasting though.

Ah Pom... maybe they're more tightly packed then? Because its like crumbling concrete.

Obviously I make my own stock from scratch usually

yes i noticed this
and we don't get any os
could do 3d noughts and crosses if we did

Oh I seeee. A 3D cross shape (didn't read OP properly)

No, they can't call them CUBES !!!!

I like the jelly type Knorr stock "cubes". Much less salty, although expensive