Pentagon Pizza Index

[lelandfe]

Sites like this are proof of why future research is going to be so damn hard. This site presents as unvarnished truth that PIZZINT was a thing in the Cold War – even giving fake quotes and a date range – but there's no evidence to support it[0]. It's just a story. I'm guessing some AI hit a few sources like Fast Company, read words like "allegedly," and decided that was just semantics.

[0] https://www.washingtonpost.com/food/2025/07/01/pentagon-pizz...

[maxbond]

Don't historians already contend with a bunch of lies and misunderstandings people wrote down in the past? Eg, it's my understanding that the Salem Witch Trials were driven by property disputes and petty grievances, but presumably that's a product of historians reading critically and between the lines, and no one wrote down "it would be really convenient if Goody So-and-So died, because I want a bigger farm?"

[rocky_raccoon]

The AI-generated images don't do anything to help the case either...

[Jimmc414]

Interesting thought experiment: Would it be considered market manipulation to order and pay for 1000 pizzas to be delivered to the Pentagon while holding crude oil futures expiring the next day?

[bawolff]

Maybe if this was the 70s. In modern times the oil market isn't quite as twitchy, and you can't tell just from the pizza index which country is about to be blowed up

[LorenDB]

This is a great website, but it'd be better without the AI-generated images (notice one of them mentions "Irak" instead of Iraq) and the Polymarket cards at the bottom. I don't understand why we've suddenly decided to normalize betting on anything and everything under the guise of "prediction markets."

[general1726]

So Pizza Index is up because that 8.8 earthquake in Kamchatka has been right next to strategic Russian naval base, where nuclear submarines and nuclear warheads are stationed?

Earthquake to tsunami hitting that base is around 10 minutes, so essentially Russians would have no time to get out.

I don't think that tsunami would destroy that base, but let's say if submarine or some lighter ship has been moored on a pier it could very well damage it, maybe beyond repair considering current Russian situation.

https://www.twz.com/sea/questions-swirl-around-status-of-rus...

[ashoeafoot]

The only strategic nuclear submarine base of russia. Which already lost most of their ts strategic bomber fleet.

[xorbax]

Lame that you can't obviously choose to show the last two weeks of the total.

[eurleif]

Has anyone actually done the work of checking how well this correlates with world events? It gets attention when it has an apparent hit, which makes it appear predictive; but you could make a random noise generator appear predictive in the same manner.

[Vilian]

It's a joke

[kjellsbells]

Fun site, but the Defense apparatus isn't centered solely on the Pentagon, so the pizza signal is muddy at best. Now, if the pizzerias of Arlington suddenly get busy at the same time as the ones in Langley and Chantilly, well, maybe...

[stygiansonic]

Wonder why they haven’t gotten an in house pizzeria yet to reduce the signal on this side channel leak

[theturtle]

I have actually had pizza at the Pentagon. True, it was almost 30 years ago, and it tasted like federal-cafeteria pizza, but it was edible and I'm still alive.

[raincole]

I think the signal itself is pretty much just noise. If you're scheming against Pentagon you'd assume they're always working hard anyway.

[rl3]

Because with their budget they can afford to induce artificial demand and thus exert control over the signal, fooling adversaries in the process.

[metaphor]

They do[1], but only open on weekdays and closes at 1600.

[1] https://www.mosaicpizzacompany.com/washington-dc/

[password4321]

Sbarro closed

[ChrisArchitect]

Is this the same thing as the Pentagon Pizza Report twitter account? https://x.com/PenPizzaReport

[IAmGraydon]

Nice…I’m greeted with uncloseable ads and popups on mobile that make the site unusable. This is not deserving of the front page.

[j_timberlake]

Would they be ordering pizzas during a real emergency though? Sounds like a code-yellow kind of thing.

[addandsubtract]

The idea is, that they're spending overtime at the Pentagon and need fast food (pizza) delivered to keep working.

[theyknowitsxmas]

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[vivzkestrel]

stupid question: what happens if they all switch to eating tacos instead overnight because of a new policy at pentagon following this website s launch

[BaseBaal]

Stupid answer: methane levels would suddenly spike inside the pentagon early the next morning, perhaps giving the GasInt division just enough warning.

[johnthuss]

There was an excellent podcast covering this on Endless Thread!

https://overcast.fm/+PCa9DKnMg

[noworld]

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[unstatusthequo]

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[VoidWhisperer]

Don't you know, that trial expiring is reason for war and why we are at pizza defcon 3!

[energy123]

Since Hegseth's tenure started, a different consumable might have more predictive utility.

[OccamsMirror]

My favorite nickname for him is what people in the military apparently call him: Kegsbreath.