The phrase comes from the longer French proverb about wanting the butter and the money from the butter, the French equivalent of having your cake and eating it too. The exact recording behind this short clip is undocumented, with no confirmed speaker or original video. Online it functions as a compact reaction sound, dropped into memes and skits where someone is called out for wanting contradictory benefits. Its continued use rests on the idiom itself, which stays current because the situation it describes appears in everyday arguments about money, work and relationships.