What's more absurd than a grown man eating a pile of tater tots? Well, you could add one skin-tight yellow shirt, a homemade potato-emblemized headband and a pair of bracelets fashioned from empty boxes of McDonald's french fries. Oh, and don't forget the nametag, which appropriately reads "Spudley Do-Right." For the second consecutive year, curious Washingtonians gathered at Chinatown's Bar Louie to celebrate a few of America's favorite pastimes: deep-fried shredded potatoes, competitive gluttony, unnecessarily intricate costume designs and - of course - ridiculous nicknames based loosely on food puns and obscure pop culture references. This year's "Rock the Tot" included four six-minute heats of tater tot gorging, in which contestants crammed as many of the crispy treats into their pie holes as possible while a crowd of their peers tried to hold back their stares of disgust.
God Bless America.
In the end, it took a whopping 2.8 pounds of tot (a new Washington D.C. record) to take home the coveted Mr. Potato Head Trophy and a $250 Bar Louie gift certificate. That's almost half a pound of deep-fried potatoes per minute. What an amazing display of athleticism.
http://dc.metromix.com/events/article/hit-me-with-your/1123656/content
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