Arctic ice, in New Amsterdam and the surrounding area it is a household name. Ninety years ago, the business opened on the canal in Nieuw-Amsterdam and today it is an indispensable part of the village.
“I am of course very proud of this”, owner Rik Jansen tells SO!34, while he opens the doors of the ice cream parlor ‘De Noordpool’. For 90 years, those doors have been opened almost daily for ice cream lovers. “We make everything we sell ourselves, in the factory next to the salon.”
Rik and his wife Karin are already busy in the kitchen next to the ice cream parlor, where you can look inside. “We don’t have any secrets except for the recipe. People can just see how the ice cream is made,” he explains, while he is mixing different ingredients. And they still do it by hand the old-fashioned way. “In the traditional way.”
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