{"id":4536,"date":"2026-05-21T12:07:31","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/pope-leo-tries-to-catch-hot-dog-toy-from-crowd\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:07:33","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:07:33","slug":"pope-leo-tries-to-catch-hot-dog-toy-from-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/21\/pope-leo-tries-to-catch-hot-dog-toy-from-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Pope Leo tries to catch hot dog toy from crowd"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2026-05-21 12:07:30<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A worshipper hurled a stuffed frankfurter towards &#8211; and the pontiff appeared to try catching it.<BR><br \/>\nThe 70-year-old Pope, the first American leader of the Catholic Church and formerly Cardinal Robert Prevost, recently chatted with crowds outside the Vatican when the conversation turned to Chicago\u2019s famous snack.<BR><br \/>\nOne worshipper joked: \u201cBeing from Chicago you&#8217;ve had more hot dogs than any pope in history.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nPope Leo initially replied: \u201cOnly with mustard\u201d before quickly correcting himself and adding: \u201cMustard and ketchup.\u201d<BR><br \/>\nHis topping confession caught on to one supporter, who tossed a plush of his favourite type of hot dog in his direction.<BR><br \/>\nThe light-hearted exchange follows reports of the Chicago-born pope\u2019s fondness for American comfort food, including pizza shipped to Rome on dry ice.<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2026-05-21 12:07:30 A worshipper hurled a stuffed frankfurter towards &#8211; and the pontiff appeared to try catching it. The 70-year-old Pope, the first American leader of the Catholic Church and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4537,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4536"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4538,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions\/4538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}