Nom nom nom has lived online for years as a universal shorthand for eating, borrowed from cartoon captions and comic-book munching sounds rather than any single show or song. Short eating clips like this four-second take circulate widely on meme soundboards, where uploaders trim them for quick edits. Creators keep reaching for it because the rhythm is instantly recognisable across languages, it needs no translation, and it makes food content, pet clips and gaming moments feel funnier without any dialogue.