A lot went wrong this year, but at one Frogtown diner, at least spaghetti was back.
In 2021, a sequel year of tumult, ennui, new pandemic surges, fresh horrors and existential despair, one sign looming large in Frogtown helped unite and delight a certain subset of Los Angeles. For the uninitiated, let us be the first to tell you: “SPAGHETTI IS BACK.”
“It’s crazy, you know? We run out; we’ve gotta make sure we have it,” said Blanca Sanchez, a manager at Rick’s who has worked there for 20-plus years. The restaurant, she explained, was serving the spaghetti before she started, and it had never sold out before those 15 letters were placed on the marquee.Now, she says, Rick’s sells out twice a week. New faces regularly enter the diner asking for the dish, and staff members often watch spaghetti pilgrims pose for photos in front of the marquee.
The most popular items — the burgers, the burritos and the breakfasts — sated fans of the 40-year-old, second-generation family-run restaurant for a time, but eventually, requests for the pasta began to trickle in. “We had been passing by Rick’s every day, laughing about the ‘SPAGHETTI IS BACK’ sign and joking about how spaghetti must be under attack,” said Banford. “We always were trying to figure out why they did that.”
“It’s just so funny,” added Guglielmino, who saw multiple people dressed as the “SPAGHETTI IS BACK” sign on Halloween. “We’re both on Twitter, and I would see it go viral every other month, just a person posting a photo of it. I think it’s bizarre, but in a really funny way where you just think about it.”It took me three attempts to discover whether spaghetti was, in fact, back. At 8:41 on a morning in mid-December, it was not.“Yes, anything,” she said.“Ehhhh …” she said.
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