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Recently, former New York State Senator Ben Geller posted an explosive news on a social media platform: Washington's "pizza barometer" showed abnormalities, indicating that war might break out. This short tweet received 13 million views, and nearly a thousand comments expressed their high attention.

What is the "Pizza Barometer"? Is the so-called "Pizza Barometer" reliable?

The Pizza Barometer Theory

Republican Geller tweeted on the evening of the 3rd that by observing the real-time operation of fast food restaurants and bars near the U.S. Department of Defense, he found that pizza restaurants were "busier than usual" and bars were "less busy than usual." Geller said that based on the "pizza barometer" theory, the U.S. military may have "big moves" in the Middle East.

Geller continued to follow up on the incident over the next two days. In addition to pointing out that the bars near the Pentagon were vacant, he also mentioned that the share price of US military giant Lockheed Martin was "going against the trend" of the stock indexes of many countries falling, which indirectly confirmed that the United States would take military action. Geller's series of tweets received a huge amount of attention, and netizens generally expressed interest, but no mainstream media followed up on the report.

The "pizza barometer" is a concept in American popular culture, which refers to the busyness of pizza shops around important government agencies in the United States. If government employees work overtime on a large scale, they often order pizza takeout, so the busyness of pizza shops can reflect the overtime situation of government departments, and in some cases may indicate that major events will occur in this government department.