Hulk Hogan's Pastamania
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Hulk Hogan's Pastamania was a restaurant in the Mall of America in Bloomington, Minnesota. It was created and financed by then-World Championship Wrestling professional wrestler Terry Bollea, better known as Hulk Hogan. It opened on the Labor Day weekend of 1995 and was later heavily hyped on World Championship Wrestling's live flagship show WCW Monday Nitro, which actually premiered that September from the mall.
The restaurant, which only remained in operation for just short of a year, featured such dishes as "Hulk-U's" and "Hulk-A-Roos," and has become a running joke among the Internet Wrestling Community, primarily for the over-the-top nature of his hyping. For instance, prior to his match with Big Bubba Rogers on the premiere Nitro, Hogan declared, "I’ve eaten so many Hulk-A-Roos and Hulk-U’S that I feel kinda sorry for Big Bubba, brother!"
