in reply to How do you name the possibilities?
You might have some luck with defining a standard product and then only specifying the deviations from it. For example you could order a BigMac ( BigMac ), or a BigMac with no cheese ( BigMac-Nc ).
Hopefully this would lead to the common orders being simple ( BigMac ) whilst the complicated orders get longer ( BigMac-NcEgPbNt: BigMac, no cheese, extra gerkins, plain bun, not toasted ). As the odd orders are rare it does not matter that they are longer.
Feel free to adapt to your problem domain.
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