[nesfa-reading-group] 28 flavors reference in “ Engine Summer”

[Shelly Thomas]

I think the water jug logo was the old Gatorade one before G

On Sun, Jan 29, 2023, 6:26 PM cjhi newcastle2.com <cjhi at newcastle2.com>
wrote:

> I definitely remember 28 flavors as being part of HoJo marketing;
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Johnson%27s#Early_years confirms
> this, but doesn't note that restaurants rarely if ever had all the flavors
> (unlike Baskin-Robbins, which always had the advertised 31 choices
> available). The restaurant chain is really most completely dead (there was
> a sole survivor for some years, but it finally gave up); Wikipedia asserts
> the name still appears on hotels, although with some of them being labeled
> "Howard Johnson by Wyndham" the name may fade. The symbol was always a
> bright-orange silhouette, of a fat man with a tray of pies and a boy
> pointing to one of them; I don't know where a water container would have
> come into it.
>
> 28!/(28-7)! is the number of permutations; the number of combinations is (
> 28!/(28-7)! )/7! ~= 1.18 million.
>
> /CHip
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> *Subject:* Re: [nesfa-reading-group] 28 flavors reference in “ Engine
> Summer”
>
>
> I think that the "28 flavors" refers to the Howard Johnson's chain (it
> seems still to exist);
> while I ate at Howard Johnson's many times, I do not remember the "28
> flavors" as part of
> the Howard Johnson's image.
>
> As for the seven scoops, if I remember correctly, the number of
> combinations
> should be 28!/(28-7)! or about 5.9 billion.
>
> ... or did I misinterpret the question?
>
> Did anyone recognize the orange water-container figure?
>
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