Originally appeared on Sesame Street in the late 1960s or early 1970s as an onomatopoeia for the sound Cookie Monster makes when he eats. During the 2000s it became a general onomatopoeia for eating and became commonly used in meme-based images, especially lolcats and other image macros.
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