• 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]
• Mike Barth, the Albany man who bought this week’s winning Mega Millions ticket, only got it because he jumped out of line to buy a Snickers Dark and some guy cut the line, buying the (losing) ticket that otherwise would have gone to Barth. Instead he got the next one and a couple hundred million dollars. [NYP]
• 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. [A Hamburger Today/Serious Eats]
• That radioactive milk we told you about? It’s, like, totally okay. Probably. [NYT]
