First American pope elected and will be known as Pope Leo XIV

Some jokes I saw on Reddit:

He is to be referred to as, "Da Pope."

"Ketchup to be banned in the Vatican."

"He's going to replace Communion Wine with Malört."

I hope they bring Fred Armisen in for the SNL impression.

I liked calling him the "Ope Pope"

Dislike Chicagoans ketchup?

Yes. I think at this point it's more of a meme than a trend, but tbh I will not take Ketchup on my Hot Dogs / Red Hots just as a shibboleth signal.

That said, there are exceptions (my sister is dead to me though...)

Deep dish pizza, I'm not so sure is going to find many fans in Rome.

Just put a cover on top of it and call it a calzone, I guess.

they certainly don't appreciate it on their hot dogs.

Daaaa Pope.

Coulda been Pope Ditka.

Also... Bears fan from [deepest darkest] Peru could've gone with Pope Paddington? (I kid because I love)

Beyond the age of 8, apparently.

He's a South Sider (Dolton) and South Side Chicago pizza is cracker-thin.

I'm born and raised in Chicago and I only started hearing "ope" last year.

Do people actually think deep dish is the only kind of pizza people eat in Chicago? I thought that was a meme.

being from the non-Chicago part of Illinois, I love piling ketchup on hotdogs in Chicago just to see the looks of disbelief and scorn. Makes the hotdog taste that much better!

Thin-crust (or "tavern style" as some call it) has been widespread across the city for quite awhile.

> As of 2013, according to Grubhub data and the company Chicago Pizza Tours, thin-crust outsells the more widely known deep-dish style among locals, with GrubHub stating that deep-dish comprises only 9% of its pizza deliveries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago-style_pizza#Thin-crust...

I'm not saying we own thin-crust Chicago pizza, just that deep dish was not a thing on the south side when he lived there (it wasn't in the 80s and 90s when I grew up there either).

Yes, it's very much anathema to put ketchup on a hot dog, at least among Chicago hot dog enthusiasts.

For those unfamiliar, Chicago is also one of those American cities with its own style hotdog, so it's something of the local culture:

> All-beef frankfurter, on a steamed poppy seed bun, topped with yellow mustard, chopped white onions, bright green sweet pickle relish, a dill pickle spear, tomato slices, and a dash of celery salt.

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chicago-style_hot_dog

Obviously, this is only as serious as you take hot dogs, but they are very good and compared to deep-dish pizza, the Chicago-style hot dog feels almost healthy.

I ate Edwardo’s several times a month on the south side in the 80’s and 90’s, as did a sizable number of my friends. This is back before it became a chain (I guess technically the south side location was the second location, so it was already a chain) and they decided to take the best pizza on earth and make it mediocre-to-poor for a mass audience, which I guess happened in the early aughts?

So there is at least an existence proof for deep dish very much a thing for south side kids when he was in the vicinity.

He's apparently an Aurelio's guy (that's cracker-crust, for those not from the neighborhood).

Ha! Good to know. Friday is our pizza day, and we usually go with one local to us (Capri's), but on occasion do Aurelio's. I think today we'll have to do Aurelio's.