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Resorts Casino Won’t Have Flappers in Their Fifties; Spam Wars Have Begun

• No Flappers in their fifties: Resorts Casino lets 15 cocktail servers go because they don’t fit into new skimpy, roaring ’20s style uniforms. [Daily News]

• Carpenters Union pickets MilkBoy’s Ardmore location to protest the coffee shop’s use of nonunion labor at its forthcoming Center City spot. [Inquirer]

• Just don’t poke him, kids: As part of a new Mickey D’s marketing push, Ronald McDonald is “reaching out to kids online,” a phrase that just makes the whole thing seem extra-predatory to us. [USAT]

• Spam wars! Hormel is suing a Dutch company that it claims is ripping off its Spam packaging for their own mystery-meat product, called Prem. [CBS Minnesota]

• What’s the food scene like in Beirut? Booming, apparently. [WSJ]

• Look! Everything you ever wanted to know about grinding burger meat. Now if the weather would just warm up so we could actually grill, that’d be great, thanks. [Serious Eats]

• That radioactive milk we told you about? It’s, like, totally okay. Probably. [NYT]

Resorts Casino Won’t Have Flappers in Their Fifties; Spam Wars Have Begun