When did Viennetta stop being posh ??

[RubbingHimSourly]

I'd been talking to the DC about the sort of things we had as kids so decided this fridays food night (( always have a theme on a friday, usually Mexican / Chinese whatever )) it's a bit of an event, we set the table and use napkins, candles etc.

Yes. I'm a sad twat.

Anyways, tonight we had orange juice as a pre starter, served in posh glasses from the charity shop.

egg mayonnaise.

Chicken in a basket. (( Baskets stolen acquired from subway ))

And choice of arctic roll or and Viennetta for dessert.

It occurred to me when I brought out my picked up from Heron foods for £1 viennetta that Viennetta is no longer an event. When it used to be. So much so I can remember the first time I had it at a friend's house. And racing home to tell my mum. In a oooooooohhhhhh, we had Viennetta and it's not even a special occasion. I mean they were posh, they had other luxuries such as pop man deliveries and branded crisps but even so.

Anyways, when did Viennetta become just meh. And was it a luxury, almost aspirational dessert when you were a kid ?? Or was I just deprived ??

I only had artic roll at my aunt's house too!
Maybe because it was shop bought and seen as extravagant.

@Passthecherrycoke I remember seeing the people who used a trolley in M&S food
I too dreamed of the day when that could be me instead of just a few bits in a basket. Then they stopped doing Whisp yoghurts and started stocking other brands and the dream was over.

I think when KFC started including then with a family bucket in the mid 90's.

I never even liked the cherry. But I ate it just to spite my brother. 😉

Adding Fundus crispy panache’s to the list 😀
Not heard if Romantica.
Does anyone here remember Dundee biscuits- we would sometimes get one each on a Sunday morning ( OMG we’d often have biscuits for breakfast with a cup of tea). Dundee biscuits were the size of saucers!

Yes please to

Sara Lee chocolate gateaux

I've just put a mint viennetta in my online shopping basket
£1.65 reduced to £1
Bargain

I'm strangely excited for my little 4 year old to try this!!!

Great thread

Fundus crispy panache 🤣 now that sounds posh!

I think it was all about the aspirational branding. To the extent that it seemed to a become a bit them and us.

Them being the people on the adverts who had dinner parties, wore little black dresses and pearls and had fancy glass bowls in which they served ice cream; and us being the ordinary working class people who had blocks of ice cream in the freezer which was a rare treat.

Then I got a job on a paper round and the first thing I did was buy a Viennetta and ate it in the middle of the day.

I used to pick up a weekly packet for an elderly neighbour when I did my weekly shop in the early 80s - there were good greengrocers, butchers, bakers and corner shops in our rapidly gentrifying part of Fulham but this needed a visit to Bejam. It was faux posh then but gave her great pleasure. The crunchy texture was nice but the ice cream itself was like frozen shaving cream.

I remember them being posh! Back when the choice for ice cream was walls neapolitan or vanilla tubs. None of your haagen dazs or salted caramel ben and Jerry's. I reckon up to mid 80s the choice of ice cream was pretty mundane.

I bought arctic roll for a £1 the other week. My 11 year old thought it was amazing, my husband asked if we'd run out of money

Love reverting to my childhood foods now and again - apart from crispy pancakes, they can very much stay as a distant memory.

Having googled romantics I'm going to have to buy one and scoff it.

We thought Vienetta was posh, but we were proper povvo and only had it when we had extra cash for a KFC. My mum wouldn't buy it in the supermarket shop, even though I remember the Kwikky having it in. Couldn't afford it, when a litre of yellow Cornish scoop was a quid! Kid in 80s/90s.

I reckon it stopped being posh about the time Haagen Dazs appeared in the market?

Just googled, that was 1987.

I remember Romantica @NotTonightJosepheen

I loved it it was so nice

I'm half Irish but definitely had it in England

Haha haha, just watching An Extra Slice and they had Paul n Prue pretending to critique a Vienetta!

I still love vienetta! Can you still get Sara Lee chocolate gateau? That used to be a Sunday dinner treat, you were lucky if it wasn't still slightly frozen. Me and my sisters used to have murder over who got to finish what was left in the packaging!

I forgot about Bejam!
Cornettos were for adults only in my house so still seem extravagant to me.

I was obsessed with Sarah Lee Gateux as a child

Also those Entenmanns things I was surprised to see that they still exist just not in the UK

When I was wee it was the height of sophistication 😂 not so much now, I laugh when my partner buys it. It's a bit retro.

We never had Sara Lee or Entemanns because our Mum made such delicious cakes. Not even a stealth boast, it’s an outright boast
Anything shop bought tasted synthetic and odd.

When they started giving them away at KFC.

Vienetta was, is, and always will be the height of sophistication!

It was a ground breaking moment in my life when I realised I could buy one for a pound and just eat a good chunk of it, not just a wafer thin slice at Christmas. Mint all the way for me.

@Saucery you have to really push yourself. Your dreams are attainable, if a bit sickly.

Yes it once was sort of ‘naice’ ie served in tiny slices and ‘one’ had to wait ten minutes , as per the ad, before eating. ...It was only ever an event if you ate the whole thing straight from the freezer like a giant choc ice.