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I definitely remember 28 flavors as being part of HoJo marketing; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Johnson%27s#Early_years">
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Johnson%27s#Early_years</a> 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.</div>
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28!/(28-7)! is the number of permutations; the number of combinations is ( 28!/(28-7)! )/7! ~= 1.18 million.<br>
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/CHip<br>
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<b>Sent:</b> Sunday, January 29, 2023 5:44 PM<br>
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I think that the "28 flavors" refers to the Howard Johnson's chain (it seems still to exist);<br>
while I ate at Howard Johnson's many times, I do not remember the "28 flavors" as part of<br>
the Howard Johnson's image.<br>
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As for the seven scoops, if I remember correctly, the number of combinations<br>
should be 28!/(28-7)! or about 5.9 billion.<br>
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... or did I misinterpret the question?<br>
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Did anyone recognize the orange water-container figure?<br>
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R. Luoma malkin8244 [at] pobox [dot] com<br>
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