Viennetta facts for kids
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Viennetta is a delicious ice cream dessert. It is made by a company called Unilever. You can find it all over the world under different brand names. The original Viennetta has wavy layers of ice cream. Thin layers of chocolate separate these ice cream waves. It comes in many tasty flavors, like vanilla and mint.
The Story of Viennetta
Viennetta was first launched in 1982. A British ice cream company named Wall's created it. Kevin Hillman, Ian Butcher, and Gordon Stewart Carrick invented the special way it is made. They worked at the Wall's factory in Gloucester.
The ice cream layers are pushed out, one after another. They go onto trays moving on a belt. The ice cream is pushed out faster than the belt moves. This makes the ice cream bunch up and create waves. Each layer is pushed out at a different speed. This gives Viennetta its unique wavy, or "concertina," look.
For a long time, a famous advertisement in the UK said, "one slice is never enough." People still remember this slogan today.
In 2007, Viennetta turned 25 years old. To celebrate, a huge Viennetta was made. It was 22.7 meters (74.5 feet) long! This set a world record for the longest ice cream ever made.
Where Viennetta is Sold Around the World
Viennetta started as a dessert for many people to share. It became very popular in KFC and Pizza Hut restaurants. Because of this success, Unilever, who owns Wall's, started making many different flavors and sizes.
Viennetta came to the United States and Canada in the late 1980s. It was sold under the Breyer's brand. It stopped being sold there in the mid-1990s. However, it came back to the US in 2021 under the Good Humor brand. Unilever no longer makes Viennetta in Canada.
You can buy Viennetta in Australia and New Zealand. There, it is sold under the Streets brand. In Italy, you can find it in all supermarkets by Algida. It is also sold in Israel by Strauss, where it is called Fantasia. You can find it in Germany, Greece, and Austria too. In Japan, Morinaga Milk Industry sells it. In Finland, Viennetta is sold under the Ingman brand. In China, it is called Qiancengxue, which means "Thousand-layered snow."
Viennetta was sold in Indonesia from the mid-1990s to the mid-2000s. It came back in April 2020. This happened after nearly 75,000 people signed a petition asking for it to return. In Thailand, it was available in the 1990s. It was brought back again in November 2020. Viennetta used to be called Comtessa in Spain. But because of a legal issue, its name changed to Viennetta in the 1990s.
Viennetta was sold in Mexico until the early 2000s. It was reintroduced by Holanda in 2018. This also happened after a petition on change.org asked for its return.
Viennetta has been sold in Japan since September 1983. It is sold under the Morinaga brand there. Morinaga announced that it will stop selling Viennetta on March 31, 2025. This is because their license to sell it is ending.
