The clip circulates online as a short reaction sound rather than as a line tied to a widely documented source, and its appeal comes from the phrasing itself. Sometimes where the grits sounds like a half finished thought, so people reuse it whenever a conversation turns random, hungry or slightly lost. It gets shared in chats, edits and comment style replies as a stand in for confusion about food, and its short length makes it easy to drop in without explaining the joke first at all.