Undertale is a 2015 independent role-playing game by Toby Fox in which players can use food and other items to restore health during battles and exploration. The short eating noise became familiar to players through repeated healing moments, and clips of it later circulated on soundboards and in fan edits as a shorthand for eating, healing or gaining health. It remains popular because it is brief, instantly recognisable to fans and easy to reuse in Undertale gameplay videos, animations and short-form meme edits.