A closer look
Delivery drivers in the Washington metropolitan area inadvertently created the Pizza Meter, a legendary geopolitical economic indicator based entirely on late-night food orders originating from the Pentagon and the White House. Whenever a massive international crisis or a secret military operation is brewing, government officials are forced to work through the night, resulting in a massive, sudden spike in deliveries from local pizza franchises. During the lead-up to the Gulf War in nineteen ninety, pizza sales to government buildings absolutely skyrocketed, practically telegraphing the invasion to any teenager with a delivery car. It is a terrifying realization that highly classified matters of global security and multi-billion dollar military mobilizations can be easily predicted by counting how many extra-large pepperoni pies are currently speeding toward the Department of Defense
