Word: creams
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Johnson's. Impossible! So on a drive from New York City to Washington not long ago, it seemed the most natural thing in the world to stop for lunch at the next Howard Johnson's. A hot dog and some French fries and a dish of maple-walnut ice cream. That was what one had been doing on the superhighway to Washington ever since it was built back at the dawn of the Republic. But when that familiar orange roof loomed up out of the rain near Wilmington, Del., it turned out that the orange roof covered only a Howard...
...that was just an appetizer to the prospect of a Howard Johnson's ice- cream cone containing one of the famous 28 flavors. Chocolate or coffee (or maple walnut) might be good enough for parents, but if one was an inquisitive and competitive boy with a mania for collecting things, the obvious challenge was to eat all 28 flavors. This was not so easy as it might seem, for not all Howard Johnson's restaurants carried all 28 flavors. Nor was it as pleasant as it might seem either, for there were flavors like ginger that had very little reason...
...really possible that Howard Johnson's simply disappeared, and without anyone saying farewell? No, the reality is more interesting. From the day in 1928 when Howard D. Johnson opened his first roadside stand, in Wollaston, Mass., to sell hot dogs and a rich chocolate ice cream of his own formulation (16% butterfat), the next half-century was largely a story of growth and profit. But that success inevitably brought increased competition from all kinds of newcomers, like McDonald's, and the gas shortages of the 1970s hurt all roadside businesses considerably. There were also some who claimed that baby-boom...
...licensees actually bought stock in the new company. FAI now includes 137 individually owned Howard Johnson's restaurants in 26 states, a far cry from the 1,040 of yesteryear, but still . . . And although they don't all have all 28 flavors of Howard Johnson's ice cream, an FAI spokesman admits, they all have at least 18. Which indicates that if we can't preserve all the riches of the past in this forgetful and conglomerate age, we can, with a certain determination and a certain effort, preserve at least some of them. Burma- Shave...
...Whatever happened to those tangy Howard Johnson's hot dogs and the crunchy ice-cream cones? You can still find them if you look...