Norway, ice cream, and love

April 13, 2008 4:37 PM

I'm looking for a strawberry ice cream topping that we had in Norway! Please help!

About 10 years ago, my wife and I had a wonderful vacation in Norway.

One of the things that we had quite a lot of was ice cream. Pretty much EVERYWHERE had an ice cream topping that was basically like a crunchy strawberry sprinkle. It was applied to the ice cream in cones like jimmies (or sprinkles) would be applied here in the U.S. I __THINK__ it was called something like "jordbaer-strusel"

While we were there, we went to a bunch of grocery stores trying to find it, but couldn't. We then did lots of internet searches to try to find it, but this was 1998 and there weren't as many online retailers as there are now, especially in Norway.

Help? Ideally a link to somewhere we can buy it online, but at least just a correct name we can search with.

posted by gregvr to food & drink (3 comments total)

I'm Swedish, but I think the Norwegian spelling would be jordbærstrøssel (with an optional hyphen). This company seems to manufacture it and sell 1 kg boxes to stores and bakeries. (Couldn't find any better link).
posted by martinrebas at 5:09 PM on April 13, 2008

I'll look out for it when i pop into the supermarket tonight and report back.
posted by arcticseal at 2:43 AM on April 14, 2008

martinrebas has the correct spelling, and the correct manufacturer.

Jordbærstrøssel is not something that I've ever seen available in ordinary shops, at least not where I live. However, there is a Cash and Carry shop which isn't accessible by the general public (you need a company card) that sells the Idun chocolate powder and krokan in 1kg boxes, and probably sell the strawberry stuff too (I don't eat it, so I've never noticed if it was there or not).

You could always try emailing them and asking if they'd be willing to sell you some of the Art.Nr. 58060 Jordbærstrøssel 1 Kg Boks? If they won't, next time I'm at the Cash and Carry, I can check for you, and if you want some I could send it to you if you'd like :)
posted by esilenna at 3:19 AM on April 14, 2008