Price is rice circulates as a short pun based soundbite built on twisting a well known catchphrase into a nonsense food joke. With no clear single origin, it spread the way many brief meme clips do, through reposts, edits and soundboards where a one or two second line can be reused endlessly. Its appeal is the instant wordplay, easy to understand even out of context, which makes it useful for price themed jokes, shopping videos and absurd captions long after the first post.