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• dragonc - Jan 04 2006 | phrases, culture, origin, blogs

  I've always wanted to know where "cool beans" came from. Apparently you can find the info on it on wikipedia, but I couldn't.

  Quoted: It is originally from Boston, when the baked beans that had just come out of the oven were cool enough to eat, the cook would announce, “Cool Beans.” It became more popular recently as a result of a Bush Beans commercial in the mid 80s, when the talking dog, Duke, said it in one of their commercials.

  Cool Beans indeed.

  Did you know that Boston Baked Beans actually came from Native Americans? They taught the Pilgrims how to make them, though the Pilgrims substituted pork fat and molasses for the original bear fat and maple syrup. They were so popular in Boston because of the strict religious practices of the Pilgrims. They would bake the beans on Saturday and eat them on Sunday because of strict limits on work on the Sabbath, including cooking. When Boston became the American anchor of the Slave Triangle, it was floating in molasses as a by-product of making rum from sugar-cane. So Baked Beans became a staple food all over the city.