UMKC University News Yanks September Issue After Culture Editor Rants About 'Ghetto Wendy's'

-- The Kansas City Pitch reported on November 3, 2010:

"UNews staffer Nikki Bomgardner's editorial centered around a universally feminist request: She wants to be able to get her Number 11 with honey barbecue from the "ghetto Wendy's" without being stared at, OK?

At said "ghetto Wendy's," Bomgardner encountered a female drive-thru employee with "terrible grammar" and a "strong accent" who "stuttered through her gold rack of teeth" while taking Bomgardner's order. Lucky for UNews readers, Bomgardner is the paper's culture editor (!), so she was able to translate the employee's speech phonetically: "'Scuse me, ma'yam, wood ya poo' fowud, dey makin' it fresh."

You can't double-check to see if we're making this up, because Bomgardner's article is no longer available in the UNews' online archives. Probably a good call.

Bomgardner describes herself as "the only annoying white chick with a hint of a Miami tan left, in short shorts, (and) blond hair ... within a four block radius" of the fast food restaurant on Troost Avenue and 67th Street, near UMKC's campus. Bomgardner describes the indignity of having to leave her vehicle and walk inside the restaurant to check on her drive-thru order. Naturally, "every construction worker, couple on a nooner, blue-collar worker and crack-head [sic] lookin' for a cheeseburger/dollar (whichever comes first)" had to stop and stare."

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