rasstus

Lawn Ornament in the shape of a small black child wearing a ball cap, holding up a lantern, could be mistaken for a little black jockey holding up a lantern looking for something

Check out the front lawns in your area to see if any of your neighbors "own" one

by DJ January 14, 2004

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1. Rastus, the Cream of Wheat chef, created circa 1890 by Emery Mapes, one of the owners of Diamond Milling Company. Mapes adapted the image of an African American chef for a wood-cut image used as a logo for the product. In the 1920s, the woodcut image was replaced by the face of a Chicago waiter who was paid $5 to pose in a chef's hat and jacket. This logo has been used with only slight modifications until the present day.

2. A stereotype of the jolly, former slave, and a character of the coon type often featured in minstrel shows.

3. A pejorative name used by white folk for African American males in the 20th Century.

"By no means a lesser virtue of Toole's novel is his rendering of the particularities of New Orleans, its back streets, its out-of-the-way neighborhoods, its odd speech, its ethnic whites -- and one black in whom Toole has achieved the near-impossible, a superb comic character of immense wit and resourcefulness without the least trace of Rastus minstrelsy."

--Walker Percy, Foreword to 'A Confederacy of Dunces'

by Tunmy AuGratin April 10, 2006

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The gentleman whose picture is on the Cream of Wheat box.

Rastus has had his picture on the Cream of Wheat box since the 1890s.

by Cap'n Bullmoose September 1, 2005

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A boy named after his mother's two waste holes.

Rass= asshole

Mus= the other hole down there

Hallo Rassmus. Nice name you have.

Teacher : can everyone tell me what or who theyr named after?

Hans: my grand-dad

Lise: a farrytale hero

Rasmus: my mom's two holes...

by Fakefacts October 31, 2017

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