The line is associated with Jean-Marc Morandini, a well-known French television and radio presenter, and it circulated online detached from its original broadcast context. Once isolated as a short audio clip, c'est de la viande became a reusable French meme sound, shared on soundboards and pasted into edits where a blunt label was funnier than an explanation. Its popularity comes from that portability, as viewers who know the phrase instantly get the joke, while the flat delivery still reads as comic timing even without the full backstory.