There's an American pope, and he's just like us. At least, we really, really want him to be
We'd already seen Topps, the baseball-card company, issue a new card of Pope Leo XIV that was all over eBay. We'd heard about his affinity for the White Sox and seen a glimpse of him in the crowd at the 2005 World Series. And in the wake of online speculation over whether he favored the Chicago beef sandwich or Chicago-style hot dogs, we'd seen Portillo's, a local eatery, name a sandwich after him — ''a divinely seasoned Italian beef, baptized in gravy and finished with the holy trinity of peppers.'
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