You can’t help but smile when you see some version of tater tots on a menu.

There was a hungry horde at Bar Louie in Chinatown yesterday for the bar’s 2nd Annual “Rock the Tot” tater tot eating competition. The competitors, some in costume and most rocking tot-themed aliases (Fire Tot, Tiny Tot, Spudley Do-Right and Ace of Tots, just to name a few), ate as many tots as they could stand in a six-minute period, which, it turned out, is a lot more than we imagined possible. Despite bringing along…

Photo by jrspeaks For some reason, there’s a convergence of eating contests tonight. Perhaps it is the work of the nefarious International Federation of Competitive Eating. (Yeah, there is one, and apparently they have safety standards that don’t appear to include Lipitor.) First, via the WBJ, there’s a tater tot eating contest at Bar Louie in Chinatown … “contestants will have six minutes to eat as many tater tots as possible. The winner gets…