McVitie's Penguin Original - 14 Pack

In Britain the Penguin lives in that happy gap between a biscuit and a chocolate bar. It is the one that turns up in packed lunches, on the office tea tray and in the tin by the kettle, and nobody has ever needed it explained.

People in Canada go looking for it by name because they want the exact one: the wrapper they remember, the snap of the biscuit, the little ritual of the mid-morning cuppa. A taste of a school playground a few thousand miles away is worth tracking down.

This is the 14 pack, every bar wrapped on its own, so it keeps happily in the cupboard and goes straight into a lunch bag without any fuss. Keep it somewhere cool so the chocolate stays as it should, and keep a mug of tea close by, because that is how a Penguin is meant to be eaten.

McVitie's is the name behind a fair chunk of the British biscuit tin, from digestives to Hobnobs to Jaffa Cakes. Once a Penguin is in the basket, a packet of digestives usually is not far behind.