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McVitie's Penguin Caramel - 7 Pack imported British grocery product available in Canada

McVitie's Penguin Caramel - 7 Pack

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$6.99 - $6.99
$6.99
$6.99 - $6.99
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Coming home for Christmas

This one is sailing over from the UK right now, packed in with a whole container of British Christmas treats.

Order now and we'll set one aside with your name on it. The moment the container is unloaded in Halifax, we start packing, and the earliest orders go out first.

Got other goodies in your cart? We'll keep the lot together and send it in one parcel, so it all lands on your doorstep at once.

Then watch your inbox: we'll email you the moment it's on its way. That's when Christmas properly starts.
 
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About McVitie's Penguin Caramel

About McVitie's Penguin Caramel

The joke on the wrapper was never funny. You read it every single time anyway.

McVitie's Penguin Caramel is the lunchbox biscuit bar, chocolate on the outside and a caramel twist on the classic Penguin. Seven of them, individually wrapped, which sounds like a week's worth until somebody finds the pack.

If you grew up with Penguins, you know the routine: peel the wrapper, read the pun aloud, groan, eat it in four bites. It's a small thing. It's also the small things you miss once you've moved across an ocean.

Shop more McVitie's in Canada or browse the full range of British chocolate available from The Great British Shop.

Frequently asked questions about McVitie's Penguin Caramel

Q: Is this the UK version of Penguin?

A: It is. This is the British McVitie's Penguin Caramel, and we ship it from within Canada.

Q: How many bars are in the pack?

A: Seven, each wrapped on its own. How long they last is between you and your household.

Q: Are the jokes still on the wrappers?

A: That's very much the Penguin tradition, and half the reason people buy them. We make no promises about the quality of the jokes.

Q: Do Penguins make a good gift for someone who misses home?

A: They do. Tuck a pack in with some tea and a few other British biscuits and you've sent a proper taste of a British lunchbox.

More about McVitie's Penguin Caramel

Penguin sits in that very British category of chocolate biscuit bars that turn up in packed lunches, office biscuit tins and the glovebox on long drives. It has always been a biscuit first and a chocolate bar second, which is exactly why it belongs with a cup of tea.

People in Canada go looking for it because it was part of the furniture back home. Nobody plans to miss a Penguin. Then one afternoon the craving turns up, and only the one with the joke on the wrapper will do.

The 7 pack is the practical way to buy them: each bar wrapped on its own, so they keep well in the cupboard and travel well in a bag, a lunchbox or a coat pocket. One goes with tea. Two goes with a long phone call home.

McVitie's makes a whole shelf of British biscuit favourites, so a Penguin rarely travels alone. Customers tend to pair them with a packet of digestives, some Hobnobs or a box of Jaffa Cakes, and a decent supply of tea bags to go with the lot.

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Packaging Accuracy. We keep product information as accurate and up to date as possible. Manufacturers sometimes change packaging, ingredients, nutritional information, allergen advice, pack sizes or branding without notice, so the product you receive may look slightly different from the images shown. If you have a question about ingredients or allergens before ordering, please get in touch and we will gladly check for you.

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The story of McVitie's Penguin Caramel

By Aaron A.  |  October 13, 2026

The lunchbox stock exchange

Every school lunchbox had a trading floor, and a wrapped chocolate biscuit was the blue-chip stock. Crisps, an apple, half a sandwich: none of it moved the market. You knew what you had, you turned down every offer, and you ate it slowly so the whole table could watch. Then someone at home switched brands and your standing collapsed overnight. So a pack of McVitie's Penguin Caramel turning up on this side of the Atlantic is a small personal victory. Seven of them. Nobody needs to know.

Read the full story

It started with a shop

The McVitie's story begins in Edinburgh, where Robert McVitie opened a grocer's shop on Rose Street in the 1830s. Not a factory. A shop. The firm became McVitie & Price after Charles Price joined the business, and in 1888 the St Andrews Biscuit Works opened in the Gorgie district of Edinburgh. In 1892 the chief chemist, Alexander Grant, developed the recipe for the McVitie's Digestive. A chemist, working out the biscuit you dunk. That tells you how seriously they took it.

A biscuit tin that kept growing

In 1927 McVitie & Price first produced Jaffa Cakes, named after Jaffa oranges, and quietly started an argument about cakes and biscuits that nobody has won since. In 1948 the firm merged with Macfarlane, Lang & Co. to form United Biscuits. Hobnobs were launched in 1985, with a milk chocolate version following in 1987. United Biscuits was acquired by Turkey's Yıldız Holding in 2014, and McVitie's now operates as part of the pladis global food group.

Meant to last the week

Biscuits in a British house are meant to last the week. They never do. The first goes with a cup of tea while the shopping is still being put away. The second goes because the first one was lovely. By Wednesday someone is standing at the open cupboard insisting there were more, and everyone in the room is suddenly very interested in the ceiling. Hide one at the back. You will thank yourself on Thursday.

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