Viennetta facts for kids

A Viennetta dessert

Viennetta is a yummy ice cream dessert. It's made by a big company called Unilever. You can find it around the world under different brand names. The classic Viennetta has cool, wavy layers of ice cream. Thin layers of chocolate separate these ice cream waves. You can enjoy Viennetta in many flavors, like vanilla and mint.

How Viennetta Started

A close-up of Viennetta, showing its wavy layers

Viennetta first came out in 1982. A British ice cream company called Wall's created it. Kevin Hillman, along with Ian Butcher and Gordon Stewart Carrick, invented the special way to make its famous layers.

They used a clever method to create the wavy look. Ice cream was squeezed out onto trays moving on a belt. The ice cream came out faster than the belt moved. This made the ice cream bunch up, creating a wavy or "concertina" effect. It looks a bit like an accordion!

For a long time, a famous ad slogan in the UK was "one slice is never enough." People still remember it today!

In 2007, Viennetta turned 25 years old. To celebrate, they made a super long Viennetta! It was 22.7 meters (about 74 feet) long. This amazing dessert set a world record for the longest ice cream!

Viennetta Around the World

Viennetta was first made as a dessert to share with others. It became very popular in restaurants like KFC and Pizza Hut. Because it was so loved, Unilever, the company that owns Wall's, started making many different flavors and sizes.

• In the late 1980s, Viennetta came to the United States and Canada. It was sold under the Breyer's brand. It stopped being sold for a while but came back to the US in 2021 as a Good Humor brand product.
• Unilever no longer makes Viennetta in Canada.
• In Australia and New Zealand, it's sold under the Streets brand.
• You can buy it in Italy from Algida, and in Israel from Strauss, where it's called Fantasia.
• It's also sold in Germany, Greece, Austria, and Japan.
• In Finland, Viennetta is sold as the Ingman brand.
• Viennetta was sold in Indonesia from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. It came back in April 2020 after nearly 75,000 people signed a petition asking for it!
• In Thailand, it was available in the 1990s and returned in November 2020.
• In Spain, Viennetta used to be called Comtessa. But because of a legal issue, its name changed to Viennetta in the 1990s.