2/97Number of candy hearts that the New England Confectionery Company made last year: 8,000,000,000

New England Confectionery Company (Cambridge, Mass.)

    Number that said, “Fax Me”: 1,700,000

New England Confectionery Company (Cambridge, Mass.)

11/86Portion of ice cream sold in 1976 that was vanilla: 1/2

International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers (Washington, D.C)

    Today: 1/3

International Association of Ice Cream Manufacturers (Washington, D.C)

7/95Gallons of onion ice cream sold last summer at Vidalia restaurant in Washington, D.C.: 10

Vidalia (Washington)

7/88Percentage of all ice cream consumed by Muscovites that is vanilla: 95

David Kelley, Project Harmony (Montpelier, Vt.)

1/94Hours the average Chinese worker must work to earn the price of an ice-cream cone at Beijing’s new Baskin-Robbins: 7

Baskin-Robbins (Beijing)/State Statistical Bureau (Beijing)