, branded as Chocorooms in the United States, is a

Japanese snack food This is a list of Japanese and finger foods. It includes both brand name and generic snacks. Types ''Anko'', or sweet bean paste '' Anko'' is a kind of sweet bean paste. Anko is mainly eaten during the afternoon green tea time in Japan.　School ...

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Meiji Seika is a Japanese snack food company. It is the trade name of a pharmaceutical company in Japan. It was renamed into the on March 31, 2011. It is currently a subsidiary of Meiji Holdings and a Japanese leader in the area of infectious disease wit ...

. It is made in the shape of little mushrooms. Kinoko means "mushroom" and yama means "mountain". The "stem" of the mushroom is made of a biscuit-type cookie and the top is made of chocolate. Although chocolate is the most common flavor, it may come in many other flavors. It was first sold in 1975.

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