The Pennsylvania General Store is a retail and mail-order company specializing in locally made crafts and foods from Pennsylvania small businesses. Its flagship store is in the Reading Terminal Market, with another location in Elkins Park. The shop offers a visually stimulating array of everything fun to eat, wear, or put in a home, including a nice selection of souvenirs. It is known for the best cookies in Reading Terminal, which are baked fresh every day, soft, moist, and chewy. Popular choices include the Wilbur Cookie and the chocolate Dipped Chocolate Chip Cookie. The store also sells fresh Hopes cookies, freshly baked Metropolitan bread, and fine local chocolates from various chocolatiers, including giant chocolate Easter eggs. Other offerings include a great gluten free chocolate cake and a sample of key lime pie described as a creamier, lighter Philadelphia version. The small shop is accessible, though tight, with accessible main entrances at the market. Cookies are reasonably priced, and the servers are personable.
