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Date: Tue, 08 Apr 2003 07:42:49 -0400
From: KeithG <noonenopsamspring.com>
Subject: Re: What is your favorite 900 model?


My interpretation from here in the heartland (Ohio) is slightly different. Rice connotates lots of useless stuff and not necessarily anything that makes it better handling or faster. "Warmed', 'Improved', 'Tweaked' these are usually improvements. 'Rice' would be (on a Japanese car): Any wing on the rear deck, fiberglass cladding, blue tinted halogen lights, 20" rims, lit windshield washer nozzles, lights under the body, clear tail lights, clear turn signals, hubcaps which make the rims appear larger, Electronic noisemakers which 'sound like' a tbv blowing off, Large vinyl Japanese characters on the windows or body panels, etc... Yes, all these exist and more! KeithG 'nuther Bob wrote: > On Mon, 7 Apr 2003 09:30:21 -0400, "Nutmegger" > <nutmegger_7717nopsamo.com> wrote: > > >>>"Riced" .. Verb: "to rice", I think :) >> >>Oh...we say "Souped" >> >>As in souped up. > > > The derivation of "rice" > > We use to "soup up" American cars in the 60's and 70's. In the > 70's, Japanese cars started to become popular and those of us > who knew something about handling and power saw the potential in a > few of these little gems and started to modify them. There was no > phrase to describe us as you could only "soup up" a large American > car with a V-8. They only went in straight lines, we specialized in > corners, there was little competition. No one modified european > cars with the possible exception of the BMW2002 - you couldn't get > many go-fast parts for Euro cars so we mostly used them stock if > we had them. > > Some of the redneck motorheads with their v-8's felt a need > to denigrate our little pocket rockets. Over in the redneck Harley > crowd, they already had a phrase for Japanese motorcyles: "rice > burners". So, the motorheads started to call out Japanese cars > "rice burners" or, if they had a little respect, "rice rocket". > > As the years rolled on, more and more parts started to become > available for Japanese cars. Suddenly there were lots of bolt-on > body parts as well as bolt on suspension and engine mods. The > "rice" terminology was carried forth to this new phase. Therefore, > fixing up your Japanese car is now known as "riced up". > > FWIW, I think the Harley guys still refer to Japanese bikes as > "rice burners". But, most of them are the same guys who were > riding in 1975, so that makes sense. I think the expression > "riced up" and/or "ricer" has spread worldwide. I invite dissenting > opinions and additions. > > Bob

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