The sound comes from a Direct 8 television segment in which French food critic Jean-Pierre Coffe attacked Leader Price and its executives over the quality of its products. His outburst was clipped, shared on French soundboards and social media, and turned into a shorthand insult for anything cheap, processed, or suspiciously bad. It endures because Coffe was already a familiar, outspoken television figure, and because the phrase is short, memorable, and instantly signals disgust without needing any context.