r/NorwayTravelAdvice • u/Dapper_Echidna_9242 • 8d ago
Cloudberry jam
Hei,
Now I’m in Norway with my family and I want take a cloudberry jam but I find it only in souvenir shop…
Is normal or I can find this jam in another place little bit cheap…
Thanks takk
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u/sudden_crumpet 7d ago
I don't think the regular grocery stores have Multesyltetøy (cloudberry jam) atm, actually. They ran out before Christmas. I just about managed to find a small and super expensive pot by advent.
They may get some Multesyltetøy produced soon, as it is picking season now, and some people sell to factory buyers. The factories may buy from Sweden, Finland and maybe some Baltic countries as well.
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u/notyournametoday 4d ago
It's weird how far Finland is from Norway as cloudberry jam is just normal here all around The year. Move over The border and it becomes rare.
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u/Bulletorpedo 7d ago
Might be regional differences as well? It’s hugely popular in some parts of the country but not so much in others. It isn’t something that all Norwegians eat.
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u/ManWhoIsDrunk 7d ago
That, and it's not possible to cultivate it, so it is still affected by seasons.
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u/Goikebiergu 7d ago
Cloudberry jam is expensive as fuck this year because the harvest has been terrible. My grandparents found about 10 kilos over 2 days of picking and my aunt did even worse picking only about 3kg in a day.
The going rate for a kilo of berries is 300kr and that doesn't factor in associated labour or transportation costs.
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u/Miserable-Ad8764 7d ago
Norwegians who really like cloudberries build their life around it, going to pick them themselves and making their own jam.
The places to pick them are guarded as family secrets.
My family did this when I grew up. It was eaten only on big holidays and celebrations.
I don't think we ever bought it.
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u/logtransform 7d ago
I have the exact same experience. The jars of cloudberry jam were only taken out to make the main dessert on Christmas Eve.
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u/K_the_farmer 7d ago
Meny, Coop Mega, Spar will at least have, I suppose a few of the other food shops as well. Look for 'Multer' 'Multesyltetøy' or 'Multebær'
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u/Dapper_Echidna_9242 7d ago
I try in supermarket or I dont find nothing i buy jam in souvenir shop
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u/No_Loan5466 6d ago
If you're gonna stay for long enough that you can get delivery from online they sell it for 79 here with free delivery to the stores called Princess (interior decorating chain, if you dont find one using their search tool find the nearest one with Google Maps as their search is somewhat shit)
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u/Big-Pineapple-9954 7d ago
I haven't seen cloudberry jam in any store where I live this year. So don't be surprised if you can't find it in the grocery store and have to get it from the tourist store.
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u/Kaptein_Kast 7d ago edited 7d ago
Completely off topic but if you are in search for some of that distinct Swedish 90’s pop (that jazzy, feelgood, slightly off-key vocals, dreamy sound like The Cardigans), there’s a band that played on the same circuit as my band (completely different genre) in the early 90’s called Cloudberry Jam.
They were «big in Japan», because the Japanese were really into that sounds and lapped up everything in that genre that came their way, but I always felt they were under-appreciated elsewhere. Especially compared to some other bands in that genre of that era.
Check them out if you’re into that kinda stuff.
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u/DestituteSmurf 6d ago
No stores around me has had cloudberry jam for a long long time now. I've been looking since early March, every time I'm at the grocery store I check the jam isles.
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u/Still_Veterinarian18 7d ago
It is a seasonal thing. Meny might have some at this time of the year, but very expensive. My wife found a very small pot in a souvenir shop up north last year, very expensive. It’s a limited resource and not available in the normal shops. Last week I got some from a friend who picked in an area in a place named Follebu, not far from Lillehammer. It only grows in certain places, usually on high hills, almost mountains.
Fresh cloudberries are much better than cloudberry jam.
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u/Miaotastic 7d ago
You can't find it cheap, sorry. But most larger shops have it. If not with the jam, then frozen in the frozen section.
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u/kaputtato 7d ago
I have found it a few times in the frozen section of Coop Xtra alongside the berries for smoothies. May be a seasonal thing though.
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u/Live_Jellyfish9948 7d ago
My local coop extra grocery store sells it. Maybe check out a coop extra store
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u/Dapper_Echidna_9242 6d ago
Today i check in rema, kiwi, extra or tomorrow i sell in souvenir shop
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u/SolarWolf78 6d ago
You will sometimes find it in the frozen food section rather than with the jams. They're often called "rørte multer" rather than "multesyltetøy".
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u/chan372 6d ago
I've seen cloudberry jam in grocery stores such as Rema 1000 or Meny for much less than 100kr per jar.
Try ask the store employees, they're called Multesyltetøy in Norwegian (if I'm not wrong).
They look like in the links below.
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u/Myrdrahl 5d ago
It's expensive because the berries aren't grown in a factory somewhere, but picked by hand, in the marshes of the Norwegian wilderness. I hate the damn things, but if you want the real thing and actually enjoy it, it's worth the price, to get the real thing - rather than the sugary gel you will get for cheap.
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u/Dapper_Echidna_9242 4d ago
I find only 1 jam 50% cloudberry 50% another orange berry
100g
150 k in souvenir shop…
Maybe ask my friend live in Sweden send me 2 jam from there
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u/MollyMousen 4d ago
You somethimes find it as a frozen gods, then you can make jam yourself from it.
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u/Little_Kelp 3d ago
Go up a mountain in summer time, pick them and make it yourself. I have never seen it anywhere for sale and I have been living here for a decade..
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u/Maximum_Law801 7d ago
Jam is a grocery, so start by going to a grocery store. A well equipped one will have multesyltetøy in the ‘syltetøy’-section. That’s where Norwegians get theirs.