When did cool beans start?
Although it’s generally acknowledged that people started saying “cool beans” in the 60s, certain Internet sources cite a line from Cheech and Chong’s 1978 stoner comedy Up in Smoke as one of the first records of the phrase in pop culture: Supposedly, when Cheech tells Chong the van they’ve just driven across the . Cool beans originated in the 1970s, with comedy duo Cheech and Chong cited as pioneers of the term. The phrase continued to be used throughout the 1980s and 1990s; TV daughter D. J. Tanner said it frequently on the television show Full House. It roughly means okay or sounds good.