Out foraging for edible bargains to bring home to the family recently I stumbled upon a culinary blast from the past, Walls Viennetta (made by Unilever). To my surprise it was priced in the co-op at a mere pound, I'm having some of that I thought, anticipating smiling faces and a pat on the back from the missus, but with a nagging subconscious suspicion that I was more likely to get turned up noses and mockery for falling pray to nostalgia. I was pleasantly surprised so find the family were delighted. I don't think Vienetta has changed much in the 25 years since I last regularly ate it. The box seems pretty much the same but a creamy colour and blue rather ...  Read the complete review

I like to have a few nice treats in the cupboard and freezer for the time when my children have been well behaved and when we have sat down as a family to have a nice meal together, particularly on Sundays. Wall's Vienetta is provided in a little plastic tray with a white wrapper to keep it all sealed and this is shoved inside a cardboard box. It literally takes just a few seconds to get this opened but sometimes it feels like ages, particularly when the whole family are sitting around waiting for it to be opened and divided up! Vienetta is vanilla ice cream with lots of little layers of chocolate and when you slice it up the chocolate gives a ...  Read the complete review

I was recently reintroduced to Wall's Vienetta after at least twenty years during a visit to my Mums. When she brought out this relic of a dessert my immediate thought was of how small it looked, but then I guess everything is relative and I have got a lot bigger!! Following this experience, I decided to buy a pack as it was on offer in Tesco for a special introductory price of £1. This seemed a decent enough deal as we were having a party and this seemed like a decent backup if the Pavlova failed to set, and a good talking point for reminiscence amongst old mates. Packaging: In a small rectangular container it has a clear picture of ...  Read the complete review

Wall's Vienetta is an ice cream based dessert which contains vanilla ice cream & crisp layers of chocolate. It is available in the original variety (the one I am reviewing today) & Mint. There have been several special varieties throughout the years but the original is still the popular one. The vienetta comes in a cardboard box and within the box the Vienetta is on a brown plastic tray (I once thought it was chocolate) which is wrapped in a white plastic wrapper to keep everything fresh. If you take care in opening up the wrapper then it is possible to keep the wrapper and slide the tray with the Vienetta back in to the box to keep it nice and fresh ...  Read the complete review

A lot of the big supermarkets lately seem to have goods on offer for £1 exactly, this is probably a psychological marketing ploy, and in this case it has worked. I haven't bought Walls Viennetta for years, but when I spotted this in the freezer for a good old pound, into my trolley it went. Being a child of the 80's I practically grew up on this, so if nothing else, I am expecting this to bring back some good memories! By the way, I have the box in front of me and the correct spelling is "Viennetta", not "Vienetta" as Dooyou suggest. ~*~A bit of History ~*~ Walls first introduced this product as a Christmas promotion in ...  Read the complete review