DH’s penguin obsession

[BettyWhittaker]

DH is obsessed with penguins (the biscuits, not the birds) and always has been. He says every British household has a packet of penguins in - just as his grandparents did 30 years ago.
He’s particularly excited at the minute as they’re on offer in Asda for £1 a pack. He came in the other day with 3 packets, all different players - acting like he’d just closed in on the deal of the century.

Anyway, I know it sounds petty but it’s winding me up. Every evening around 8pm he stands up and says “penguin?” No I don’t want a fucking penguin, I never do and I’ve told him to stop asking me. Yes it sounds like a small thing but this is years of frustration. This morning his mother came around whilst he was out and once I made a coffee she said “no penguins in?” Ffs and they act like I’m the weird one!!!

Anyway next week we’re having a little party for DGD and DH wants a plate of penguins all arranged on a plate for the buffet. I think this is tacky as hell. He thinks I’m being a snob.

AIBU???

Bonus points for anyone who can tell me if every British household does indeed have at least one packet of penguins in.

Yes as per my post above I coveted the gold bars too lol!!!!

This has cracked me up 😂 but seriously it would wind me up aswell and penguins arnt even that nice

We love Penguins! I have mint, orange and caramel flavours currently sitting in the cupboard! However, they are primarily for my son's lunch box. We aren't obsessed over them though. My son would be bored if he had Penguins in his lunchbox every day.

Cheap chocolate! Tacky!

Timtam is a far superior biscuit. I sense the tension that might erupt if you were to bait and switch ....

Actually now I'm wondering if this is a genius marketing ploy from team penguin, 'forget your sexy corsets and steak dinners ladies, we know what really gets men going!'

Of course it is. You can't do that "bite off diagonally opposite corners and suck tea through the biscuit" thing with Penguins unless they've changed their recipe radically since the 90s. Fall right apart.

They are not even allowed to be called chocolate now. They are chocolate flavour. ..so they are not the same at all.....odd obsession though.

We never have Penguin biscuits in, they’re ok, I might have one if I was offered one at someone else’s house but they’re nothing special.

I haven't p p p picked up a Penguin in well over thirty years. We also have a pack of Taxis in.

I made that up, we don't.

YABU and a snob. if he’s not stopping you enjoying other things then what harm?

They're pretty dull, Penguins. I turn my nose up at Tim Tams too, if I'm honest. To me they're just Penguins in a shit wrapper. But we're not a very biscuity household.

McVitie's own web site describes them as "milk chocolate flavoured coating, biscuit and chocolate flavoured cream"

So basically a load of crap

You can buy cheaper alternatives at Lidl and Aldi that can actually be legally advertised as chocolate not merely chocolate flavoured

I've worked at the same place for 26 years and have a penguin at morning coffee every day. I often read out the joke... my colleagues must hate me. 😆

I'm a bit disappointed this thread isn't about actual penguins. I like people who have good wholesome obsessions.

Leave the poor bloke alone, maybe you need to take it easy with a cadburys caramel. 😂

Its been decades since I bought a packet of penguins.

If we ever have real Penguins (as opposed to Tesco or Lidl versions!) I feel well posh, but we can't have a permanent supply as I could eat a pack a day and have zero self control. Your husband and MIL sound about 6 to me.

I thought Tim Tams were very sad. But the non-chocolate Penguins probably are too.

I realise it was a typo by a pp, but it would be good if there actually were Ferrero Rocher dupes called Ferraro Rodgers.

Taxi bars - gosh forgot bout them !

You are not a snob

It does not even sound like you are that annoyed about the penguins just the tweeness of your husband's obsession and his refusal to recognise that you do not want a fucking penguin even though you tell him every night

I can see how it gets tiresome

Sorry but your post really did make me chuckle.
There hasn't been a packet of Penguins in my house for years, I genuinely couldn't tell you the last time I bought some.

Im seriously considering buying some now though 😂

I mean I hate them but god live him ,give the man a plate of penguins 🤣🤣 GO on pppppppp pick up a penguin

@muddyford Yup, Penguins were bland enough when they were made with actual chocolate. And I don't understand the Tim Tam love at all.

Tell him to pppppp piss off...

I haven't had one or thought about them in years. I don't think one plate of them would be unforgivably tacky, though, unless it's a formal party where you wouldn't normally serve things in wrappers. Can you ask DGD what she would like? You could always tell any critics that the Penguins are there for the pensioners.