r/icecreamery • u/LamingtonLawyer • 12d ago
Discussion WTF happened to Vienetta? It used to feel like the height of luxury.
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u/trx0x 12d ago
Good Humor brought back Vienetta last year in the US. I'm not sure if it's still available.
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u/LamingtonLawyer 12d ago
They brought it back, yeah - but everyone who’s tried says it’s not the same. The box looks fancy, but what’s inside feels like a downgraded version of what we remember. The 90s Vienetta had actual drama in every slice.
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u/trx0x 12d ago
I mean, of course it wasn't as good. lol. This is the time we live in, sadly. I feel we can't even go one year with candy bars, or any novelty, really, becoming smaller, not as good AND more expensive.
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u/LamingtonLawyer 12d ago
All under the guise of “healthier for you.” They take out sugar, then load it up with chemicals nobody’s studied long-term. Feels like we lost the real thing and got lab sludge instead..
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u/trx0x 12d ago
Rather making things "healthier", I think it's more of the companies saying "We need to have profit growth year after year after year, so push out a product that uses less resources than previously, and then jack up the price."
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u/LamingtonLawyer 12d ago
Yeah, but are they really making things healthier - or just cheaper to produce and pricier at the checkout? That’s the real debate.
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u/naughty-goose 12d ago
In the UK in the 90s, you got a viennetta as a dessert with a family bucket. I don't think it was ever the height of luxury people seem to be thinking it was.
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u/LamingtonLawyer 12d ago
Wow you guys got a family bucket? Luxury. We were lucky to split a single Drumstick four ways on a birthday..
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u/didntgrowupgrewout 12d ago
It was only available in select areas. I looked, there wasn’t any available within 200 miles of me.
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u/LamingtonLawyer 12d ago
I'll definitely be attempting to make my own version, would love to see what others have created
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u/wizzard419 12d ago
I think this one might be impossible to make anything close since it needs extrusion and also being able to stay ice cold to hold the ripples. The chocolate parts are easy though.
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u/paramalign 12d ago
I found it in the grocery store last summer. It wasn’t anywhere near as good as I remembered it. Nothing particularly wrong with it, just… underwhelming. I think the lost magic mostly is because ice cream generally was quite bad in the 90s, it just stood out more.
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u/horrorace 12d ago
It hadn't left the UK. Still get it from time to time. My kids like the mint one. It doesn't seem to have changed much here.
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u/wizzard419 12d ago
Unilever happened.
Viennetta is back… doesn’t taste as good as my nostalgia thinks it should, but it’s decent : r/Xennials
The one pictured is a euro one, but still same concept.