“Meteor shower” sounds like “meatier shower.” “That looks like a meatier shower” was printed in a 1996 novel. “WHY DID KIBO PUT LOW QUALITY GROUND BEEF IN HIS SHOWER HEAD? HE WANTED TO HAVE A MEATIER SHOWER (METEOR SHOWER)” was posted on the newsgroup alt.religion.kibology on December 15, 2001. “Why did the man dump ground beef on his head? he wanted a MEATIER SHOWER!” was posted on Twitter on January 6, 2011.
   
“You can have seen a meteor shower, but you have never seen a shower ‘meatier’ than this” is a line from the popular animated movie Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009).
   
     
Wikipedia: Meteor shower
A meteor shower is a celestial event in which a number of meteors are observed to radiate, or originate, from one point in the night sky. These meteors are caused by streams of cosmic debris called meteoroids entering Earth’s atmosphere at extremely high speeds on parallel trajectories. Most meteors are smaller than a grain of sand, so almost all of them disintegrate and never hit the Earth’s surface. Intense or unusual meteor showers are known as meteor outbursts and meteor storms, which may produce greater than 1000 meteors an hour. The Meteor Data Centre lists about 600 suspected meteor showers of which about 100 are well established.
       
Google Books
Yon Ill Wind:
A Xanth Novel
By Piers Anthony
New York, NY: Tor
1996
Pg. 84:
“That looks like a meatier shower.“
 
“A meteor shower!” Jim said without taking his eyes from the road.
 
Google Groups: alt.cloned-sheep.bah.bah.bah
Silly Question Time
Dave Downs
9/17/00
(...)
>ps What do you get if you squirted loads of gravy and minced beef down a
>hose pipe, then squirted even more meat down it?
>
>A meteor shower.
 
A meatier shower?
   
Google Groups: alt.religion.kibology
Monsters (not Inc.)
Joseph Michael Bay
12/15/01
WHY DID KIBO PUT LOW QUALITY GROUND BEEF IN HIS SHOWER HEAD?
HE WANTED TO HAVE A MEATIER SHOWER (METEOR SHOWER).
   
Google Groups: alt.humor.puns
“Puns of the Weak” 08-08-03
Stan Kegel
8/8/03
(...)
An explosion at the meat packing plant caused quite a meatier shower. (Pun of the Day)
   
18 January 2004, Rockford (IL) Register Star, pg. 8E, col. 8:
IF A COUPLE OF BUTCHER SHOPS BLEW UP, MIGHT THE BIGGER ONE RESULT IN A MEATIER SHOWER?
     
Wikiquote: Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (film)
Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs is a 2009 film about a town where food falls from the sky like rain.
(...)
Sam Sparks
Thank you, Saint Patrick. Okay, everyone, you’re not going to believe this one, but I’m standing in the middle of a burger rain. You can have seen a meteor shower, but you have never seen a shower “meatier” than this. For a town stuck eating sardines, this is totally manna from heaven.
 
Twitter
James Isaiah Muñoz‏
@jamesmunoz
why did the butcher hang sausage links from his shower head? cuz he wanted a meatier shower.
9:15 AM - 12 Aug 2009
 
Twitter
Jerome Y. Reyes Jr.‏
@jyreyesjr
Why did the man dump ground beef on his head? he wanted a MEATIER SHOWER!
8:56 AM - 6 Jan 2011
 
Twitter
Kara‏
@karakazoo
Why did the man dump ground beef on his head?..........He wanted a meatier shower!! Hahaha!! #IHOW
7:49 PM - 3 Feb 2011
 
Twitter
natashabianca‏
@NatashaBianca95
Why did the man dump ground beef on his head? He wanted a meatier shower.
12:52 PM - 18 Mar 2011
 
Twitter
mary pattison‏
@marrryp
“You may have seen a meteor shower but you’ve never seen a meatier shower” mwuahaha love Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs
5:29 PM - 10 Mar 2013
 
Twitter
~*CaitlynDianne*~‏
@caitlyndianne32
you may have seen a meteor shower but this is a MEATIER shower -cloudy with a chane of meatballs 😊
5:08 PM - 1 Apr 2013
 
4 April 2014, Huddersfield (UK) Daily Examiner, pg. 27:
Tell us a joke Why did the man dump ground beef on his head? He wanted a meatier shower!
   
Google Books
Uncle Grandpa Cheesy Joke Book
By Wrigley Stuart
New York, NY: Cartoon Network Books
2016
Pg. 29:
Why did Uncle Grandpa dump ground beef on his head?
He wanted a meatier shower.
 
The Amazingly Lame Joke of the Day
Sunday, August 27, 2017
A friend called me last night, quite confused, to say a couple of sausages hit him on the head on the way home from the pub.
 
“That’s nothing!” I replied. “I got hit by four steaks, two pork chops and a leg of lamb.”
 
“What could it be?” he asked.
 
“I’m not sure, but mine was definitely a meatier shower!”
Posted by Tim Wycislak at 5:55 AM