Food roundup for jan 27th

From the land of awesomeness comes a comprehensive guide to surviving your first trip to Casa Bonita. The magical Mexican paradise (and restaurant) featured in South Park. Sopapillas, sopapillas!

Also noteworthy is the Baskin Robbins Chocolate Oreo Milkshake, which was recently named the “Worst Food” in America. You can read about one blogger’s run in with the “heart attack in a plastic cup” at Riverfront Times’ Gut Check.

Apparently Korean Corn Tea is exactly as bad as it sounds. But if you’re looking for a drink that’s heavier on the alcohol than it is on the novelty, Seattle Weekly has a few suggestions for reviving some classic cocktails.

Raise your hand if you love outsourcing. Now put it back down and click on this next link about Jack in the Box’s test program that is outsourcing drive-thru orders to a call center where your Bacon Ultimate Cheeseburger could feed a family for a week.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, high end foodies everywhere can rejoice at the prospect of wearing jewelery from Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi. Finally, a necklace in the shape of a lima bean.

And lastly, if hope were a beverage, it looks like it would be Pepsi. The not too subtle logo featured in their “Refresh Everything” campaign is positioning the drink “as if Pepsi was some kind of benevolent, direct vessel to the prez.” We’re not 100 percent sure whether Obama is partial to Coke or Pepsi, but we’re almost positive the last 8 years were more of a Sunny D administration.