It was no small feat for a chomp to able to rotate about his axis like some planetary body whilst at the same time minding his jiggles. The problem was that the uneven distribution of the jiggles disrupted uniform rotation, which wasn't a problem for the plum cakes since they were perfectly short and delicious cylinders.

They had paused their dance in apparent suspicion of the chomp's attempt at mimicry. His rotation was wobbly, and no self respecting plum cake would wobble in its dance. It would only be so many seconds before, thanks to the jiggles, the jig was up and the plum cakes would elude him.

The chomp had to think, and he had to think fast. Now the jiggles on a chomp were accumulated over many years of persevered cake eating. They were the primary drivers of a chomp's metabolic processes. A chomp with fewer jiggles would be less active than a chomp with more. But the jiggles were also detachable and edible, so one could theoretically remove them before the body absorbed them for energy.

Naturally the chomp knew this - he was a studious good boi chomp after all. So as he navigated his slowly rotating body towards the herd of wary plum cakes, he reached out and plucked a few jiggles from one side. But this caused an imbalance, and he nearly toppled over. So he detached some jiggles from the side diametrically opposite to the previous one. But he detached one jiggle too many, for now his body began to topple to the other side.

This went on till the rotating chomp was mostly jiggle-less by the time he was about ten meters from the herd and, lacking any jiggle, no longer had the energy to rotate or to chomp.

A quandary indeed!