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.

I think you should replace them all with Aldi seal bars in secret one night…

Aldi seal biscuits are so much better.

They're not chocolaty enough for me.

😂

For years DH and I argued about how a timtam was just a penguin after I developed a love of timtams. As of recent time they’re now available in the UK he has become a regular timtammer. Penguins are now relegated to the week before pay day. Feeling flush? Timtam. Bit skint? Penguin to rescue.

Many years ago, when teaching, I walked into the deserted school kitchens on a Sunday afternoon (boarding school, I was on duty).
I found the headmaster, sat on the floor eating a whole packet of penguins - he explained his wife, who was the school matron, and very scary, had put him on a diet and banned chocolate, but he had bucked under the strain!!

Have they really called them Seal? 😂

Aldi and Lidl are the kings of the dupe.

The names they do for their pretendy items are great

I expected this thread to be about the birds. 😆.

I remember the different colours wrappers. Set your DH a task and see if he can order some from retro type website. You may want one then.

Does he read out the jokes too?

TEAM PENGUIN!!! NOOT NOOT!!!!!

Well at least it’s not Pombears

a bit weird for grownups to have a Penguin habit, but a plateful is p-p-perfect for a kids’ party.

I used to love Penguins!

But I've not had any here for at least ten years.

Sorry I did laugh. It was only last week I was thinking that every week my parents would buy a couple of packs of this type of snack. Penguins, Rocky, or Clubs. It was a blast from the past. My household definitely doesn’t have a packet of penguins. They are average at best.

When we were kids, penguins were a weekend luxury

You were lucky. All we had were broken digestives from the grocer.

We don't have any but only because they've been eaten! It's not something I could get cross about, he's even supplying them himself!

Are pingwings one of the bars that are no longer allowed to be referred to as chocolate because they've been adulterated with cheap crap?

Tell him it’s just a borbon biscuit covered in chocolate

Sorry @BettyWhittaker but this made me laugh 🤣🤣 I suppose there are worse things than a penguin but it would annoy me too 🤣

My DH and I had a falling out the other day because I lost my shit over him asking me if I wanted a cup of tea 🤣🫠 15 years together - he knows I don’t like hot drinks - he still asks me daily if I want a tea 🫠 We’ve had the discussion 100x with me telling him that I’ll ask if I ever want one. But he says he feels rude if he doesn’t ask 🫠 Id had a bad day the other day and his tea offer tipped me over the edge 🤣

I've never eaten a Penguin and I've never lived in a house that "always had a packet of Penguins". And I'm nearly 70.

Golfs, plain chocolate Kit Kats and plain chocolate digestives are something else - and delicious!

Penguins? Nah!!!

YABVU - Team Penguin here as well.

But thanks for the tip that they are offer right now at Asda for £1. Absolute bargain and I'm so excited.

😂

I want a chocolate biscuit bar Penguin
And a lovely funny looking bird .
Thank you for putting forward a new and exciting way to mainline chocolate through osmosis.

I mean it isn’t just a bourbon biscuit covered in chocolate - the biscuit is different. And not really sure why that is a gotcha

bourbons are my favourite biscuit though

We don't have Penguins, but we do have Tunnocks Caramel Wafers. Indeed, it wass getting to the point a couple of years ago that we'd have them between courses at dinner to clear the palate.

It seems the most harmless pecadillo to me. Even quite amusing.

Much prefer a Tim Tam.