Like most people who grew up in south Louisiana, Norby Chabert has a vivid memory when it comes to his favorite things he's caught at Mardi Gras parades. One of those, from when he was just a young boy, has nothing to do with the glittering plastic beads, small toys or other trinkets most often tossed off the side of Carnival floats. Instead, it's Choc-O-Jels.
The small, chocolate-covered sandwich cakes with a fruit jam in the center are now called Jelly Creme Pies, but back then, Chabert just knew them as the Little Debbie cakes his grandmother would keep in the refrigerator for a cold snack. He remembers the moment on a parade route when a float-rider lifted a whole case of the tiny cakes into view.
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