From MSN.com: Bassetts Ice Cream, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania America's oldest ice cream company, established in 1861, Bassetts Ice Cream was the first merchant to sign a lease at Reading Terminal Market in 1892 and is still owned and operated by the same family today. It was founded by a Quaker named Lewis Dubois Bassett, who first started making ice cream with a churn powered by his mule. The company is known for offering Philadelphia-style ice cream, which doesn't use eggs,