A variation of the song is featured on the movie soundtrack of the 1999 Canadian romantic comedy Better Than Chocolate.
[2] The title of the song is a play on Canton, Massachusetts-based ice cream store Baskin-Robbins and its well-known "31 flavors" slogan.
A cover version of "32 Flavors" was released as the first single by Manhattan-based singer Alana Davis.
"[4] It was Elektra A&R representative Josh Deutsch who suggested Davis record "32 Flavors" to serve as the album's first single.
Davis, although was pleased with the finished result, was uncomfortable with covering the song as she felt she could not connect with all of the personal emotions expressed in DiFranco's lyrics:[5] Davis told MTV News, "Ani DiFranco is very much her own song writer ....
I took out the parts that I wasn't comfortable with ... and I put in ideas of my own and sent her a copy of it and she said she loved it ...."[6] DiFranco has stated that she initially found Davis' lyrical adjustments "hard to swallow" but does not fault Davis, adding she feels "pretty unprotective" about her compositions: "The 'songs as children' analogy works for me, in that you have to learn to let them go.
"32 Flavors" has since been remade by Elle Varner for her 2012 mixtape Conversational Lush and Dianne Reeves for her 2014 album Beautiful Life.