Reference Message Network reported on June 14 that according to a report by the German News TV Channel website on June 13, there was a surge in pizza orders around the Pentagon, suggesting that Israel might launch a large-scale attack on Iran soon - at least that's what the "observers" on the platform X believed. About an hour before the explosion in Tehran was reported by the Iranian state television, the X platform account "Pentagon Pizza Report" posted that the busyness around the US Department of Defense had increased.
On the evening of the 12th local time, the account reported: "From 18:59, the order volume of almost all pizza stores around the Pentagon surged significantly."
The theory behind the "pizza index" is that when an international crisis involving the United States breaks out, employees of the Pentagon and other government departments have to stay in the office to continue working, leading to an increase in demand for takeout food. This theory has been popular in Washington for a long time.
According to reports by the American website "Bringing Food To You", when Israel attacked Iran last year, the pizza stores around the Pentagon were also much busier than usual because although there were many fast-food stores inside the Pentagon, there was no pizza store. The report said that the number of pizzas delivered to the Pentagon also surged significantly before the US invasion of Panama in December 1989 and during the "Desert Storm Operation" against Iraq in 1991. (Compiled/translated by Zhong Si Rui)
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