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.

Bite a corner of each end and use it as a straw with hot chocolate lush.

My dad was like this with Blue Ribands! Every time he offered one, he'd say, "the family treat!" 😂 He'd get them at Christmas and it was the highlight of his day.

I wonder how you feel about him in a wider sense and how long you've been so angry about a biscuit bar?

Penguins are boring as hell biscuits. Much better other ones available.

Has he tried an Aldi seal bar, I'd say you fancied one just to wind him up 👀🤣

If ASDA was still open I’d be heading out… £1 a pack. I’d quite funny, but I get how it may be annoying. We get one every 2 or 3 years.

I would be tempted to agree to a plate of them, you will sort it. Buy Seals from Aldi instead. Watch him and MIL implode.

I’ve never liked them, even as a child. They are too sweet.

Please don't leave the seals near the clubs. The treat drawer would be a massacre.

Re the party, it's a kids party, why would some biscuit bars be tacky? How posh is it meant to be? Just don't put it next to the caviar

From Chat AI:
Penguin bars are no longer considered real chocolate due to soaring cocoa prices, with makers McVitie's reformulating them with a "chocolate flavour coating" using cocoa mass and cheaper vegetable oils (palm, shea) instead of true chocolate, meaning they now legally must be labeled "chocolate flavour".
Shame.

I would prefer a box of matchmakers or orange clubs. So I never have penguins in. If someone offered me a penguin I would eat it.

I think just let him get on with it and let him put penguins out at the party. You don’t have to eat them. He might be making more of a big deal of it to wind you up so just ignore it and let him buy/ eat penguins.

Can you wean him onto Bourbons, maybe by gluing jokes saved from Christmas Crackers onto each one at first? :-)

There’s a new flavour out Carmel and they are lovely with a coffee x

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!!!

I cannot stop laughing at this. It is indeed crazy but also hilarious. 🤣

‘No I don’t want a fucking penguin’

Made me laugh out loud 🤣

No Penguins in this house and I have never known my family or in laws to have any.

Just stare at his stomach next time he’s undressed and say “Time to lay off the penguins for a while I think.”

I can’t remember the last time I had Penguins in the house.

This works very well with a finger of Twix.

Oh this does sound like a recurring joke in a bbc teatime sitcom. I'd want to murder him too.

Cheaper habit than Coke...Cookies and cream Kit Kat, now there's the GOAT.

I don’t think I’ve ever bought Penguins, but I shall rectify that tomorrow.

OP, could be worse - your bedroom could be full of plushy penguins. Staring at you. All the time.

This struck 3 chords with me..

1. I’m sorry, but I laughed so much at your post.
2. I now want a Penguin.
3. When we were kids, penguins were a weekend luxury, the rest of the week it was a bloody horrible wafer bar called “Majestic”. Not even any chocolate on the outside like a Blue Ribbon. I think your DH is being, more than anything, nostalgic.

I think it is quite nice. It is good to get happiness from the small things in life.