This has led to a thread of people realizing for the first time that no, the creators of South Park did not make this place up. And of people describing in ways better than I could just how painfully awful the food is there. Ah, I remember being so naive. On both counts.
Anyway, big laughs, if you've ever had the misfortune of going to Casa Bonita. And maybe even for those who haven't, for moments like the poster who wrote that you'd probably like the food at Casa Bonita if this looks appealing to you:
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I had a standing rule of going here only once per decade, but I've unfortunately been twice in the last 2 years.
Once because we had to introduce my nieces to it. The other because I had friends from Texas who didn't believe it was real either. So I had to take them and give them food poisoning too. *NOW* they believe. ;-)
I also had to buy a shot glass for a friend of mine in LA. I think she keeps it on her desk at Sony as a conversation piece.
Although, I don't really know if "WTF" is a conversation. :P
I still want to visit the original one in Tulsa to see if it sucks just as bad...
There's a reason they make you buy the food before you can go in.
For shame Roland, for shame. I understand taking the nieces, but couldn't you have just shown your Texas friends the outside and let them enter at their own risk?
I'm quite content to assume the Tulsa one is just as bad, if not worse. I mean it is in Tulsa!
LOL...Sangediver, let me ask you this. What do you think the odds are of dropping someone off at Casa Bonita, pushing them through the door, and having them go through the place on their own?
How do you expect them to get the full and true extent of the HORROR if you're not there to make sure they can't skip out after seeing the cantina orchestra at the seating podium - and saying that they "went?"
NO NO NO. They have to sit, they have to take a bite, they have to know every last flavorless and sickening HELL that is Casa Bonita. They must suffer through dinner before the bliss of the sopapillas. They must witness the cheesiness of the cliff divers standing just below a drop tile ceiling. They must let their palate reconcile the smell of 20 tons of chlorinated water with an Alien-eque acid type of nacho cheese.
Otherwise, you're just a poser.
And side note, I didn't say I was going to go to Tulsa *specifically* to see. If I happen to be sucked through Tulsa one day, I'll make a side trip just for my own amusement. I'm sure there's a Pepto Bismol stand nearby...
I wonder how much of a "bump" South Park gave this place. from all accounts it sounds horrible, but if I find myself anywhere near Colorado, I'm going to HAVE to go!!
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When we were kids there was ALWAYS a line... I never went to CB without waiting at least half an hour.
Roland, can you tell us if they are still beating customers away with sticks? I don't know when the South Park episode aired... did you go before and after, both before, or both after?
Snarky Smurf - I went with the nieces just here in October. It was easily a wait of 35 minutes in line. And we got there when it was short - it had backed up out the door shortly after we got there (making it about an hour wait in line for that dreck.)
So yes, business is still booming there. Lord help us all.
Damnit, this talk is making me crave ACTUAL Mexican food just so I can reassure my poor taste buds that we're NOT going there!!! :P
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