{"id":6741,"date":"2026-02-12T14:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T19:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/?p=6741"},"modified":"2026-02-16T14:46:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T19:46:17","slug":"meet-pieroguszka","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/2026\/02\/12\/meet-pieroguszka\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet Pieroguszka"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Forget the ermines\u2014the 2026 Winter Games have found their true carb-loaded hero! 🥟❄️<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meet Pieroguszka (literally “Little Pierogi Pillow”), the unofficial mascot currently stealing the spotlight with Team Poland in Milano Cortina. While other athletes are focused on “aerodynamics” and “fitness,” the Polish figure skating team showed up with a smiling dumpling that looks like it\u2019s ready for a nap and a side of sour cream. Talk about a “filling” performance! I guess when the competition gets cold, you need a giant, plushy carb to keep your spirits high. 🥟<\/p>\n\n\n

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You can buy Pieroguszka directly from the source<\/a>: a social cooperative in Katowice, Poland, that supports people with disabilities. Because they went viral at the 2026 Winter Games, stock is selling out faster than they can make them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Forget the ermines\u2014the 2026 Winter Games have found their true carb-loaded hero! 🥟❄️ Meet Pieroguszka (literally “Little Pierogi Pillow”), the unofficial mascot currently stealing the spotlight with Team Poland in Milano Cortina. While other athletes are focused on “aerodynamics” and “fitness,” the Polish figure skating team showed up with a smiling dumpling that looks like … Continue reading Meet Pieroguszka<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[687],"tags":[1442,1440,1436,1437,1441,1438,1439,1443],"class_list":["post-6741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-olympics","tag-carbloading","tag-carbloadingmilanocortina2026","tag-milanocortina2026","tag-pierogipower","tag-pieroguszka","tag-teampoland","tag-winterolympics","tag-poland"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6741"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6743,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6741\/revisions\/6743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.trommetter.org\/timeline\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}