Mom's Spaghetti: Eminem opens pasta restaurant in Detroit!
Detroit, Michigan - With the benefit of hindsight, Eminem opening a pasta restaurant on the back of one of his most iconic lyrics was just meant to be.
And so it's come to pass: Mom's Spaghetti opened its doors on Wednesday in Detroit, Michigan, as Eminem announced in a Tweet.
The post also included a first glimpse of the menu, which featured variations on one theme: spaghetti.
The rapper showed up at opening day to surprise fans and hold down the order window. Taking orders and posing for pictures, the Detroit local treated a few surprised fans to selfies.
According to the Detroit Free Press, the opening was a massive success, with a line stretching for blocks. Some fans camped out in the early hours of the morning to get some of Mom's Spaghetti.
The restaurant is a collaboration between the rapper and an operator of several restaurants, and had previously been tested as a pop-up restaurant.
The name and idea are 19 years in the making, inspired by a line from Eminem's 2002 hit song Lose Yourself: "His palms are sweaty, knees weak, arms are heavy, There’s vomit on his sweater already, mom’s spaghetti."
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Let's hope the rest of that line isn't also part of the new locale's experience.
Cover photo: Bildmontage: Evan Agostini/Invision/AP/dpa & Twitter/Screenshot/Eminem