EDIT: Okay, it was a bit silly of me to drag my heels in, I don't strictly hate it and there are good things about British cooking (mostly veggies), but I find the meme's meat obsession super silly. I am having stomach pains and cramped arteries just looking at this stuff.
Highly underrated
I love how it's superimposed on the diapers lmao, I hope the meme was ironic
I could only quote wikipedia at you which says the modern version originated in the UK, but was brought to the US by a slave named James Hemings. Others have said how culinary history is a complicated topic in general and I frankly am not interested enough to read on it and give you a confident answer. I mostly found the meme's execution so clumsy as to confuse people about its sincerity which makes it funny again.