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Pasta Rasta 

Pasta Rasta is a white individual with dredlocks. The 'Pasta' does not come from a person's hair taking on the appearance of noodles, nor does it imply that the person is of Italian decent; rather, it comes from the root word paste, referring to the subject's pasty white skin.

Rasta comes from the root word Rastafarian...I'm not going to give you the entire Rastafarian Movement run down; if you don't know look it up. Pasta Rasta's know little, if anything, about the Rastafarian movement & culture and are usually just dirty hippies or street rats.

Pasty Rastafarian doesn't have a real nice ring to it so that is where you get the term Pasta Rasta.

The term originated sometime in the early 90's in the bay area where several Pasta Rasta's live and (some times) work (sometimes not so much, with the working and the whole "being a productive member of society" thing)
The smell of patchouli oil, poor choices, and body odor wafted over from the circle of Pasta Rastas beating their bongos in the park.

Since, for white people, the formation of true dreadlocks generally requires a sustained lack of personal grooming, the Pasta Rasta are at an attractiveness disadvantage from the get-go.
Pasta Rasta by Oneway Wu April 10, 2011
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white rasta 

A white rasta is a rasta born in a white mans body. Smoking the ganja, and growing dreds is the way in which they express there inner rastaness. Don't fear the white rasta, they are perfectly harmless, just aproach them and smile (they will share).
Dude, look at that crazy white rasta dance.

White Rasta 

There are a few types of white rasta.
The most common is the middle class, marijuana-obsessed joke who emulates black people and Bob Marley. This type of white rasta almost never knows anything about rastas or Selassie.

Another type of White Rasta is the legit, Jah serving, moral, layed-back kind. This one doesn't necessarily have to have dreadlocks or smoke herb. He is a true Rastafarian.

The last type is your average joe, silly character. This type always has dreads, but not because he emulates black people, or is full of angst. Usually this white rasta decides to have dreads because it makes him feel different. It is more of an act of nonconformity (see: hipster). This kind of white rasta doesn't always have to smoke herb. To them it is really only about the hairstyle. Can't exactly be considered a poser, since he doesn't claim to know anything about the culture that comes with the hair.
Silly White Rasta thinks hes black... it's so pathetic.
White Rasta by WhiteRasta#3 June 15, 2011

Never Ending Rasta Bowl 

A delicious, freshly-packed bowl that, once lit, is smoked from start to finish without ever needing to be re-lit.
She was so blazed from that Never Ending Rasta Bowl that she finished the never-ending pasta bowl!

back rasta

"dude, i call back rasta! cheryl's short and i can make her move up her seat."
back rasta by nerf ball November 24, 2006

Sourdough Rasta 

An anglo man/ woman who has dread locks. Generally they will follow the Northern California dope smoking/ growing, and/ or complete removal of self from the main stream except to own a cell phone and/ or get their email.
Did you see that guys dreads? I think I saw a peice of one fall on the floor...he's such a sourdough rasta.
Sourdough Rasta by jessicajett April 6, 2006

white rasta 

/noun/ a middle-class, white teenage kid who tries to rebel by growing his hair in dreadlocks, listening to Bob Marley's music, and complaining about being "put down by Whitey;" in reality, he just likes to smoke lots of marijuana
Yeah, man! The Man likes to put us down by makin' us get jobs and pay taxes and shit. We gotta stick it to the Man, man! Hey, man! Puff-puff-pass!
white rasta by Silky Smooth January 16, 2004