To eat an entire Vienetta like an ice lolly?

[Marymanna]

Ok hear me out. I eat really healthily normally. I am a size 12, muscular, lift weights 3 times a week. Slim, athletic build. Try to avoid UPFs and sugar.

Sometimes I just want a release from the pressure of being so well behaved! I have quite an academic job, work part time but end up spending some spare time on the house/family/kids. Make a huge effort to support my two teens, my DH, as well as working in a pressured job.

Sometimes I just want to let loose and do something "crazy" like eat an entire Vienetta (mint) like it's a giant ice lolly while everyone else is asleep. Is this normal behaviour or AIBU?

What a lot of extraneous information. You're going to weird, extreme lengths to justify eating a load of ice cream.

Are you saying you hold it upright and lick it? What a mess.

I've always wanted to eat an entire supermarket kids birthday cake. The kind with fondant icing and a some kind of character on top.

Just do it!

I just read your title and I wish to assure you that YANBU @Marymanna.

God only knows what is actually in them.

I'd have thought if left out overnight they would melt into a puddle?
Well they turn into a congealed lump. Put me off for life

I need a shocked emoji

Imagine my face when I found it

Let me guess. Lard? I stopped buying my dc 99p cones when I found out it's used as a fat substitute in ice cream.

They're always disappointingly small anyway, more so with shrinkflation than ever before. Just do it.

Go for it @OP. I'd join you, but I'm not fit and muscular and that amount of dairy would not be a good idea for me.

You can get vienetta alike lollies in Iceland, called Vienna.
I don’t think you should eat a whole one tbh.

Of course eat one and enjoy

As you mention a job and kids I assume you are in fact an adult and I am therefore here to tell you that you can do whatever you like. You don’t actually need strangers on the internet to give you permission to eat ice cream. And that would still be the case if you were a size 18 and didn’t have a clever job, for what it’s worth.

Enjoy your Viennetta!

It's ages since I've seen this. For some reason, it always makes me smile. Not sure why, it could be the wiggling machines or just the sight of miles of ice-cream!
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I am sat in bed eating a share bag of kettle chips. So I say go for it.

Mint Viennetta ingredients:

Reconstituted skimmed milk
Coconut fat
Water
Sugar
Glucose-fructose syrup
Glucose syrup
Whey solids (milk)
Fat-reduced cocoa powder
Emulsifiers (mono- and diglycerides of fatty acids, ammonium phosphatides)
Stabilisers (locust bean gum, guar gum, tara gum, carrageenan)
Colour (copper complexes of chlorophyllins)
Natural flavouring.

No lard, at least, @trumpredcard.

No way really? I wish we still had Iceland over here 🙄My OH loves Viennetta 🐽😊

I once saw someone eat one outside of Tesco.

That would make me properly sick. Dont ask me how I know.

What flavour?

Do it. If it’s only sometimes it’s all good.

they are so small these days

YAB entirely R

I’ve never had a vienetta and didn’t even know they were still in existence, but I say go for it!
Are they that good? Maybe I need to try one.

You can do what you like, you don't need our permission, but
(a) vienetta isn't actually that nice. Most people would get sick of it by half way through, it would be too sweet and cloying to keep enjoying. Personally I would rather have a more modest-suzed serving of an actually good quality icecream (at £1.79 for 650ml Vienetta is going to be mostly padded out by cheap bulking agents, whereas Waitrose Chocolate Santo Domingo Ice Cream is over £5 for a 500ml pot and I feel thoroughly satisfied with a 200ml bowlful.
(b) binge eating while everyone else is asleep is more an emotional issue than anything else. If you are finding this aspect of the urge irresistible then it might be appropriate to get some counselling to figure out why you feel unable to nurture yourself and have to keep it a secret if you want something nice

Eating 650ml icecream isn't that different from drinking a pint of chocolate milkshake - you have every right to do it, most adults wouldn't want to, it's the wanting to do it secretly that is potentially worrying.

Vienna/Vienatta - strange choice from the manufacturers, given that the -etta suffix in Italian is a diminutive 🙂