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I have just noticed my new box of OXO's has been reshaped into an X where has the square one's gone ?????

So what I'm thinking ......are we getting less OXO as the hollow out on the sides of the X are missing .....so getting less for our OXO for money .
It does say 71g on the box ,but I don't have an old box to compare the weight even if the old one says 71g how can that be even though its less OXO in this new shaped CUBE ?

Go on say I'm a mad woman ....I don't care ...LOL

But very curious.........

Hi Marilyn
I just had to walk out to the kitchen to check for you.... LOL
I have the old shape box, sort of cubish................ they are 71g !!!

Isn't the new box hard to store?


Linda :o)

Hello Stranger.They have been like an X for a while .Not so easy to crumble as the square shape lol
How are you doing ?

Hi Linda,

LOL no the new box is still square as usual , and the silver paper covers the X shape OXO in the box..........Got IT ???? LOL

I was just going to say the same, Linda.

I usually put mine individually into a jar with tight-fitting lid, though.

Box of 6 says 35grms.... so your X shape isn't depriviing you!.

EDIT
Oh... Thanks for explanation they wouldn't fit in my jar, so easily then.

Gwyn

Hello Jane.

Long time no see.....where have you been ?

So looks like we are being cheated out of out OXO'S in quantity .

Well shows how often I cook ........Not very ..!!

Well, I got all the answers ...LOL

Should have done my research first .

http://www.marketingweek.co.uk/news/premier-foods-to-bring-back-oxo-family/3003016.article

Silly me.......

I haven't been anywhere Marilyn lol ...not even crumbling my Oxo Cubes (well very rarely )unless it is a casserole and I use Bist* as well as the X shaped thing !

Well our shops must be miles behind because mine are cubes.

I don't put them in tinned tomatoes Shelly, but I alway put them in with my Bisto gravy.

Don't worry Pauline mine are all square too. Either I missed them or they didn't have them here LOL

I add them to Bisto too, and if making stew or soup.

I used to have them as a drink after swimming lessons in an open air pool, it was always freezing then. Very evocative

Linda :o) XxX

OK.. OK ...OK ,


So I have old OXO's cubes until last week when I bought some new ones ....

But still think I have been diddled out of the amount in the X shaped cube.

Pauline & Linda, glad you got the old ones as well.....Shelly is just showing off ,just to let us think she does more cooking than us ....LOL

Didn't know it was because of X factor ......

I didn't even know they made them, let alone bought X shaped ones....Lol !


Gwyn

LOL... Gwen ......so you don't cook either ..!!

Linda, I used to have them as a drink after swimming lessons as well, we got a cracker with the drink...........not sure why they gave us a cracker though.

I used them tonight Marilyn, in my onion gravy.

When I was young .......a little girl Awwhhhh, I used to buy them instead of sweets . you could get 2 for a penny halfpenny .....oh dear don't know to type that !!

So that's why I still love them now and I do have them in Hot water as a winter drink ....

I squish the cubes while in the foil, also,
but not come across(NO pun intended there)the new shaped ones yet.........

Bob

Bob, if you squish them in the foil, you will not have the pleasure of seeing if they are X ones .....LOL

Next time look first , its funny seeing the shape ......don't look right on such a memorial old OXO cube ....after all they were first made 1899 ..... think ..LOL

Oh! I am a retired engineer, and would,(I am sure) be able to detect a different shape hiding in the foil.........LOL

but squidge away, in whatever method turns you on!!

LOL

Bob

Whenever one of us kids was poorly, Mum always gave us a cup of oxo with a slice of bread. I made this for myself once in the ward kitchen, and found myself explaining to a gynaecologist that it put the salt that you lost during an op back into your body, and she believed me!