“Pizza index”: crisis barometer? Many pizza orders in the Pentagon before Israel’s attack

Shortly before Israel’s major attack on Iran, the number of pizza orders around the Pentagon rose. There is a pattern behind it.

Massic pizza orders around the Pentagon have provided indications of the upcoming major attack on Iran-at least that is the analysis of observers in online service X. About an hour before Iranian state television reported on the first explosions in Tehran, the account “Pentagon Pizza Report” pointed out an increased retirement in the US defense ministry.

“Since 6:59 p.m., almost all pizzerias near the Pentagon has seen a huge increase in activities,” reported the pizza reporters on Thursday evening (local time). Her analysis was not only limited to pizza deliveries, but also took a gay bar near the Pentagon, which was therefore apparently unusually bad. This also indicates “a busy night” in the ministry, it said.

Idea behind pizza index

The idea behind the pizza index is that in the event of an international crisis that also affects the United States, officials from the Pentagon and other ministries are imminent in the office and the need for food deliveries is high.

The pizza theory has been circulating in Washington for a long time. The pizzerias adjacent to the Pentagon were also much more frequented during the Israeli rocket attack on Iran last year than usual, since there were many fast food restaurants in the Pentagon, but “the Takeout” reported recently.

According to reports, the pizza deliveries to the Pentagon also skyrocketed shortly before the US invasion in Panama in December 1989 and before the “Operation desert tower” against Iraq in 1991.

Israel had started an unprecedented major attack on Iran on Friday in the early morning. According to the army, around 200 fighter planes bombed goals in Tehran, the nuclear system of Natan and several military facilities. Iran spoke of a “declaration of war” of Israel and announced retaliation.