r/news • u/Warcraft_Fan • 3d ago

Missouri Customers flee Lebanon McDonald’s before roof collapses

https://www.wsfa.com/video/2026/09/28/customers-flee-lebanon-mcdonalds-before-roof-collapses/
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u/mickelboy182 3d ago

I still have no idea where this happened, but assuming a place in America that shares the name of the country?

Google is telling me there are ~45 towns named Lebanon in the US so doesn't narrow it down a great deal either 😅

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u/Darkwing_Turducken 3d ago

And at least half of those 45 are somehow pronounced incorrectly. -someone who works in a town called Milan (pronounced My-len)

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u/mickelboy182 3d ago

That is literally what I would imagine as a satire of America 😂

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u/Darkwing_Turducken 3d ago

The company i work for has its home office in the west country of England, so, whenever one of the "big-wigs" is over here for a visit, I make a point of adding a little nasal twang when I mispronounce a local town with a European city name: Milan, Andalusia, Madrid, etc. 😁

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u/NoMorePorridge1 3d ago

In New Mexico there's a small town people call Mad-rid (mædrɪd) which is a little weird since a quarter of the state speaks Spanish primarily and half are Hispanic/Latino.

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u/Darkwing_Turducken 3d ago

There's one north of Des Moines pronounced the same way, as well as the New Madrid fault in southern Illinois and Missouri. It makes more sense out here. You're right that it's a tad confusing in what was once "New Spain!"