Incredible ice cream made right here in Pennsylvania
- Bassetts Ice Cream
- Jun 12, 2025
- 1 min read
From The Keystone:
Bassetts Ice Cream – Philadelphia
Bassetts Ice Cream is not just the oldest ice cream company in Pennsylvania, but the oldest ice cream company in the country! Founded in 1861, the year the Civil War began, Bassetts uses milk from Pennsylvania cows to craft Philadelphia-style ice cream. What is Philadelphia-style ice cream, you ask? It’s ice cream made with just sugar and cream—no egg yolks like many ice creams that use custard bases. (Fun fact: Famed chef James Beard once described Philadelphia as “the ice cream capital of the country, maybe of the world.”)
Anyway, Bassetts Ice Cream is an American classic, and you can get more than 40 flavors of the fifth-generation ice cream brand at Reading Terminal Market. The simple, flavor-forward ice cream has been sold at the market since it opened in 1892.
No complicated war game strategy needed here, just simple sugar and cream perfection. Imagine a scoop during a coffee break, totally worth it!
Founded in 1861, it uses the classic Philadelphia-style recipe with just cream and sugar, keeping the pure milk flavor. With over 40 flavors available at Reading Terminal Market, I once used Viddo AI to make short videos about such classic brand stories. Just enter text to generate high-quality visuals—it’s perfect for sharing food exploration content. This brand’s century-old history and store scenes would look incredibly atmospheric with it
This ice cream is world-class, just looking at it makes you crave it! After eating it, a few rounds of the exhilarating Drift Hunters game would be the perfect way to boost your spirits, guys.
I love learning the history behind brands like Bassetts; it shows how much storytelling matters alongside quality. Reading this made me think about how heritage foods are described today. Do small businesses ever hire product description writers through platforms like PayssomeoneTo just to capture that history accurately?
Love how this highlights the history behind something as simple as ice cream. Stories like this feel richer when the details are clear and well structured. It actually reminds me of how Manuscript proofreading and editing online helps preserve tone and facts something I’ve seen discussed by Academic Editors in the context of documenting food and cultural history.