The phrase comes from an Italian fan-made Sonic clip shared on soundboards, where the character says 5 mas 5 patata and promotes a small channel. Mas is Spanish for plus, while patata means potato in Italian, creating a mixed-language joke that spread among kids and meme editors. It has no official Sega source and survives mainly as a user-uploaded WhatsApp and soundboard audio, reused whenever a confident but nonsense answer is funnier than the correct one.