2019, "Your Say... Readers Respond To Past Issues", Motortrend, October 2019, page 28:
Sir, This Is a Wendy's [used as heading of a reader letter complaining about several issues]
2019 December 18, Evan Brechtel, “Internet Hero Creates Fake Letter From Nancy Pelosi With Perfect 5 Word Response to Trump and People So Wish It Was Real”, in Second Nexus:
The fake letter reads: "Sir, this is a Wendy's." For those unfamiliar, the response is commonly deployed to someone who goes on a lengthy or irrational rant on an unimportant topic.
2020 July 24, jthr...@gmail.com, “Re: LOL!”, in alt.guitar.amps[1] (Usenet):
One of the comments: "I got the whole alphabet right, even the hard part where you have to say LMNOP! The doctors were really impressed!" "Sir, this is a Wendy's"
2020, Christoph Collins, How to Properly Play with Your Pussy: & Other Vital Lessons in Cat Care:
Critics are raving, rioting, and losing control of their bowels over How to Properly Pet Your Pussy: "Sir, this is a Wendy's." -Esteemed Book Critic
2020 September 10, Michael Hollan, “Wendy's worker recalls outraged customer demanding mac and cheese (which isn't on the menu)”, in Fox News:
Reddit user TheInsanePotato shared the story to the site’s “Ask Reddit” boards in response to a post asking fast-food workers for their “’Sir, this is a Wendy’s" stories.
2020 October 26, Stephen E. Sachs, “Institutions and Platforms”, in Reason:
Everyone gets this instinctively when it comes to "Sir, this is a Wendy's."
“Somebody says something weird or wrong and then you make fun of them by saying, 'Sir, this is a Wendy's drive-through.' Twitter thinks it's hilarious.”
2021, Ethan Lam, "The British Family Unveils Mecha-Prince Phillip" (satirical article), The Stuyvesant Spectator (Stuyvesant High School, New York, NY), 17 May 2021, page 22:
QUEEN ELIZABETH: "You see... this world is imperfect. Will no one cleanse it of its impurities until it is as beautiful as me? Phillip was a being of imperfect flesh, but now... I finally have the sword I will use to bring judgment upon the wretched."
EMPLOYEE: "Ma'am, this is a Wendy's drive-thru."
2021 April 27, Justin Vallejo, “Donald Trump issues bizarre statement ranting about the Oscars”, in The Independent:
I simply could not imagine going about my day in this heightened-reality femme fever dream of an outfit without at least a few well-meaning people stopping to inform me that, "Ma'am, this is a Wendy's."
Man, if that isn’t the most Indianapolis Colts thing in the history of Indianapolis Colts things, we honestly don’t know what is. Ol’ Johnny U is tapping his foot in heaven. Never mind the fact that this is a public park (sir, this is a Wendy’s) or that Irsay’s voice sounds like he's been gargling rocks, when he gets to Bob Dylan’s iconic refrain, you can’t help but feel, for one brief, shining moment, that America is the greatest country on earth once again. God bless. Amen.
"The only reason you're at ESPN is due to affirmative action," Brown claimed in his email. "Jeff Saturday must privately feel so emasculated having to pretend to have an intellectual back and forth about professional football with someone wearing lipstick and high heels."
The sexist remarks were made in response to Kimes's work as an NFL analyst alongside her colleague, Saturday. Luckily, Kimes was able to react to the email with humor as she posted it with the caption, "Sir this is a Wendy's."
2022, Rebecca Fitton & Veronica Jiao, "Making public our private: exhaustion, gossip, and unfinished sentences", inDANCE, Winter 2022, page 51:
There was nothing left to say– for me, it was a matter of reading the verdict, being disgusted, and then knowing all of my closest Black friends would feel it, have nothing more to say about it, and go on with their lives being Black in America. There are memes circulating right now re-posted by @embracingblackculture that are like, “You don’t want to talk about black liberation? - lmao this is a Wendy’s.”
The sexist remarks were made in response to Kimes's work as an NFL analyst alongside her colleague, Saturday. Luckily, Kimes was able to react to the email with humor as she posted it with the caption, "Sir this is a Wendy's."
2022, Dan Savage, "When an asexual says 'no', she means no", The Georgia Straight, 17 February 2022 - 24 February 2022, page 17:
Sir, this is a Wendy's. (Full disclosure: this isn't a Wendy's. This is a sex-advice column, JACKS, and sex-advice columnists are not matchmakers. So you'll have to find and/or hire a phone-sex provider on your own.)
“You must be in so much pain to keep posting bikini pictures at your age,” a follower commented on longtime supermodel Paulina Porizkova’s Instagram this week. “I pray you can come to terms with your mortality.”
This comment has big “Sir, this is a Wendy’s” energy, or at least, “Sir, if seeing a woman’s exposed flesh compels you to bring up her death, the internet might not be the healthiest place for you right now” vibes. But Porizkova, who is 57 and known for having a good sense of humor, responded with another bikini pic, adding, “As you can see, I’m suffering indeed.”
2022, Alex Rychwalski, "Odds and ends", Cumberland Times-News (Cumberland, MD), 27 June 2022:
Instead of getting on a soapbox and spouting off opinions nobody asked for (“Sir, this is a Wendy’s”), we’ve got some quick hitters on the menu.
