try here
Its an Australian store that specialises in importing American foods. I think it may be easier to ship across the tasman than the pacific.
Just for my own curiosity I checked out that site Shal. But I couldn’t find anything for ice cream. Did I miss it somewhere?
quote:
The New Zealand Ice Cream Company
is an award-winning manufacturer of ice cream and ice cream novelties for domestic and export markets. Our brands include Divine, Mel-O-Rich Supreme, Mel-O-Rich Everyday, and Mel-O-Pops.
Mel-O-pops - somebody should shoot the person who came up with that high class name
Slight hijack, a common complaint of kiwis who went abroad in the seventies and eighties was that you you couldn’t get hokey pokey ice cream. Admitedly this was in the days before luxury brands like B&J, but even now you will still get this occassionally
Send them this
Sorry, I actually never bothered to check the site to see if they stock ice cream :smack:.
Uh, I guess it wouldn’t hurt to email em and see if you could get them to expand their product line.
Well, I talked to the head of shipping: they do not accept international orders. The revenue isn’t worth their bothering with international law.
On the plus side, he didn’t seem too worried about health issues. The expat services mentioned above might be able to help, or your friends may be able to get a package of ice cream in dry ice shipped express.
There’s a chain of ice cream shops here in Sydney called “New Zealand Natural” or something. I don’t know if it’s actually made in NZ, but at any rate Australian marketers have long had a habit of using “New Zealand” in food product names to imply purity, playing on NZ’s image of crisp, unpolluted sea air, alpine water, glacial ice, rich dairy produce, etc.
I’m sure they’ll be able to find some good local stuff there.
I must confess, I am baffled by this thread. One of the joys of holidaying in New Zealand is eating the ice cream. What next does anyone know a company that imports lamb from England to NZ. Perhaps a non New Zealander as skipper of an America’s Cup boat. I’m off to the New Zealand Ice Cream Company shop in Westfield for lunch.
Yeap, those wee “New Zealand Natural” shops are all over the place. Saw one in Singapore.
I remember that Ice Wolf… back when the summers were endlessly sunny, and the popsicles were 7 cents… or was that 5? 
I dunno… maybe I’m an uncultured barbarian, but the Tip Top we have now tastes to me like it did years ago… there’s just more flavours. On the other hand, having lived in Iowa for a little while I’ve had to revise my unflattering (and uneducated) opinion of US icecream… mmmmm… Whiteys…
Doing a quick search through on-line supermarkets here I can’t immediately see a US brand, though there are some specialty brands that are similar (IMO) to US icecream – Movenpick and Killinchy Gold are both very rich and might satisfy your friends fighting ignorant if they can’t find any from home.
you have my deepest sympathies…
If I could…
I would…
send you whatever American ice cream your heart desires for I knoweth whatith it is like, to long for a special foodstuff…
sigh…
Perhaps I should gettith into the internaionalth food business…
another thing…
They can talk about Ben & Jerry’s till the cows come home,
butteth,
Brewsters makes the best ICE CREAM…
CAN WE SAY…“BUTTER PECAN” with Roasted WHOLE pecans,Oh my God…
Would sending Baskin & Robbins ice cream from Australia be any good? Despite the US name, isn’t the stuff sold in Australia made in Australia too?
As an aside, I can’t see why anything like B&R (which tastes pretty pedestrian to me) shouldn’t be available locally in NZ.
On sending food through the post: there are restrictions on sending fruit, vegetables, dried fruit, nuts, meat products and honey, but to my knowledge, nothing on dairy products. I’ll see if I can dig any info up.