Got called a RICER because...
 

Well last night I was talking to my sister and her boyfriend and I was telling him about a car that my sisters friend owns (Honda Civic) and how he riced it out and my sisters boyfriend said "I wouldn't be talking, I mean you do own a RX-7 and that is RICE!". I was like WTF are you talking about? First off all, my car is stock, except for the CD player that I put in it. I then had to explain some stuff to him. So yea, just because I drive a stock RX-7. I'm now a ricer..LOL.

Tell him to race, then see who's rice. lol jk

LOL, that would be an easy race, since he doesn't have a car.

Don't you guys know that anything "Japanese", is feed by rice.:) And anything that eat's rice is a lean mean streamlined racing machine..:rlaugh:

So considering he doesn't have a car I'm assuming he doesn't understand what classifies a car as rice or not. Either that or he is a hardcore American car fan. I've been called a ricer just because I drive an import, and then in the same breath have the same guy say "A BMW isn't an import because a white person made it," because we were talking about cars I was looking at buying.

Well probably both. He probably doesn't understand what rice is and from what I hear, he is into jeeps and trucks and shit like that.

I was making fun of ricers one day, and a kid told me I was a hypocrite because I had a rice burner.

Rice Burner and Ricer are two different things, and I explained to him. Plus mine's a german engine.

Technically piston engines and diesel engines are German as well, as it was a German who originally developed them.

Actually Francois Isaac de Rivaz of Switzerland invented an internal combustion engine that used a mixture of hydrogen and oxygen for fuel. Of course it wasnt a very efficent design, it passed for a patent.

-1807-

-nick-

Sorry for the misinformation, in that case.

my definition of rice is a person with a slow car thats puts on a loud muffler, some racing stickers, tinted windows rims and tires and thinks he has the fastest car in the world, rx7 is far from rice, im just really anti-rice!

www.anti-rice.com

Number of Neons, Accords, Civics and Sunfires pictured = thousands
Number of RX-7s pictured = one, that I've found, and yes it was riced bad!

Found on page #9 of Galleries.

http://www.anti-rice.com/rice10/s-1_B_L.jpg

:rlaugh:

That's not rice, it's refried beans.

poor thing! som1 needs to save it and rape the owner with a brick!

Just tell him that unless he feels like putting $20 on a race between the Rx and his foot-mobile he should shut his face.

lol, i'll raise my blunt to that!

Guess I've been a ricer for 20 years then......and I always thought it related to dumb add ons that weigh the car down for the sake of blingage.

My race cars are ricers under this theory.....hmmm, dumbarse alert....

I call the civics and all the other cars, neons, etc. that have just mufflers on and some rims fartcanons. Exspecially the hondas, they're so loud.

tell them rice stands for Rotary Internal Combustion Engine... RICE, then it is no longer an insult... it is powered by rice

Theres a little japanese kid inside the engine spinning the shaft. thats not rice????

there was more than one

http://www.anti-rice.com/rice5/rx7.jpg


isaac

eldest bros car? ^^^

Yeah, he is back here tonight and I'll ask him later what his defenition of rice is. It will probably be something dumb.

I always thought the new found word of "Rice" was very unusual. Originally it started from close minded full blooded American car drivers. A japanese car was considered a "rice burner" based on it's Asian descent of design. Since the glorious scene of street racing and super fly bling mobiles, our culture has taken on the new meaning of the word.....

Look past the ignorant people......don't take it personal........and enjoy your car.

It's all good. Just enjoy your car. Different strokes for different folks. It don't mean nothing!!!!

And I like Landon303"s definition.

I wonder if I could run a rotary engine in a mini stock at the dirt track.

to me rice includes euro tails, massive wings, cut springs... basically anything done to draw attention. if it looks like the non-turbo eclipse(that somehow makes BOV noises!? :asian: ) from fast & furious, you've got rice

to me rice is anything you can buy from APC,Rally,pilot...ect. working for one of the largest parts distribution companys in the northwest you some some awsome rice parts come through there

Cool. My wing is smaller. So I am gussing I am going to be a ricer with a costom body kit vary nice paint job and nice sounding muffler.

I will fit in where I live and thank god there are meets every sunday nights but i think they are done for the winter. But I will be all show but no go.

I have foglights from APC. They are great and look great. I'd give a pic but I don't have any on this computer

"It is here that we find a new type of rice. In the 70's and 80's most import automobiles from Asia were considered Rice, although now it was no longer an important part of the noon-day feast. No, now it was a car, that was called by this nickname because of the vehicle's roots in Asia where the palpable food is so common. At this time it was carried with it strong undertones of racism and hate because the sales of these vehicles funneled money out of the country and consequently affected "The American Working Man." To note, another lovely name for such vehicles was "Rice Burner."

Reprinted in part from:
http://www.geocities.com/shoprofiles/ricers.html

My question is, If a term, or even a symbol, has evolved from it's original meaning how does one know which meaning a person is referring?

Example: In high school (circa 1990) I drove a Honda Accord, stock unmodified. The boss at the company I worked for saw it and called it rice to my face. What did he mean by this term? Well to give you a background, he was in his mid-fifties, a hard working, physical laborer, who owned a sand and gravel company.

I knew what he meant by it, and I know that he was insulting me.

Either way, I don't care. I drive what I drive because I like it, and I don't care what other's opinions are.

If having a rx7 makes me a ricer then dammit im a ricer. I couldnt live without the car..

:werd:

+1

If people are insulting because one drives a Japanese car, the correct response is:

The Toyota Camry is the #1 selling car in the United states and has been for the past decade or so. It is this way because the Japanese design is more efficient, more reliable, and cheaper than the American design... For example the Chevrolet Malibu. Case in point, look who's having problems with fulfilling labor contracts. The Toyota Camry and several other Japanese makes are built right here in the god ol' US of A by American hands. Compare that with Ford and Chevy that are usually built in Mexico and Canada respectively.

"What do you mean, Doc? All the best stuff is made in Japan."

exactamente! but when you fine one on the street(on your RX) they look at you once and then they start looking at the radio or something cause they don't wanna race:rlaugh:

"smoke him"

hahahahaha yupp, "Stickers make me go faster" :fawk:

I'm sorry, Where did I say this?

It's from Back to the Future, I think.

That's a huge plus 1.

youll understand when you realize what kind of car you drive.

82REX had it right, part III actually. kind of a response to Japan = rice

I was agreeing with you because I honestly couldn't see myself going without an FB. I love these cars. I'm sure I'll still be owning an FB when I am fifty, sixty, and maybe even seventy. There is just something about these cars that are far too addictive to quit.