Every so often I take these little trips down to Jungle Jim’s to look for wonderful foodstuffs, most importantly chocolate (and beer and wine and hot sauce and salsa and bbq sauce and soda and… well lotsa stuff). Recently I took one of those trips with the added bonus of having a beer trade set up for the day. Well, I really didn’t find a whole lot of exciting chocolate this time around. I ended up grabbing a Galaxy Ripple bar and a bag of MOBY Crunchy Chocolate Flavored Snack. The Ripple was pretty good, but not earth-shakingly amazing or anything. The Moby…

Well the MOBY is interesting. It’s from the Philippines and it’s like some sort of crazy corn puff covered in some kind of cocoa glaze. That’s really the best I can describe it. It’s got a good bit in common with the corn pop style of breakfast cereal but a bit puffier/airier. The smell is kind of a slightly burnt sugary cocoa kinda thing. Taste-wise it’s got a nice hit of chocolate to it, but isn’t overly sweet since it’s mostly a giant corn puff with a bit of glaze. It has just enough sweet and cocoa to be something special without being sickening sweet and nasty. Honestly, if it were a cereal I’d eat it. Overall it’s a wonderful surprise - different in a good way. And it’s all fortified with vitamin A!

This is one of those fun little things that I pick up from time to time out of a sense of curiosity and it really paid off for me. I really enjoyed these little puffy things and am happy to give them an 8.5 out of 10. Now I need to try the Caramel version.