Local and online stores are reporting sales of gingham dresses and penguin hand puppets are skyrocketing as quarantine continues.

With the coronavirus forcing millions around the world to quarantine themselves indoors, many aspects of the economy have begun to suffer; however, gingham dresses and penguin hand puppets are selling at a rate that’s never been seen before.



‘We’ve been making penguin hand puppets for twenty years and the demand has suddenly skyrocketed. We’re selling them faster than we can make them,’ Mr Flibble told us.

It’s thought that the act of being quarantined does something strange to the human mind that makes gingham dresses and penguin hand puppets particularly appealing.

‘The mind goes to strange places in strange times. It might seem odd to sit around in a gingham dress while talking to a penguin hand puppet but if it helps you get through the day, why judge?’ said behavioural expert A.J. Rimmer.

People are being asked to only buy the gingham dresses and penguin hand puppets that they need and to not stockpile them, otherwise the King of the Potato People could lay down some serious punishment.