Mark Lyle wins national Bar Louie Rock the Tot
The winners of the Bar Louie Rock the Tot contests are listed on the restaurant pages. Mark Lyle won the national contest. Here are the totals with more than 4.0 pounds:
Mark Lyle 4 lb. 5 oz. Columbus, OH
Steve Thompson 4 lb 2 oz. Pittsburgh, PA
Carl Deselm 4 lb 1.5 oz. St. Louis, MO (2008 overall winner)
John Palmgren 4 lbs, Peoria, IL
Bob Kuhns 4 lb. West Homestead, PA
Jeff Dunn of Beavercreek, Ohio, had the largest total, 4 lb. 9 oz., but his contest was 12 minutes long
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Gentleman Joe said (Registered December 8, 2005)
May 10, 2009 @ 1:50 am
Congrats Mark!
As tempting as it is to do any contest, a $250 gift card to a place no closer than 2 hrs away was a bit much for me. Its also extremely disappointing that a national chain w/over 50 locations would only award a $250. G.C.
The placings in this event should prove that I was correct regarding rankings.
Congrats Tiny! Were they fresh, or were they blanched like the owner told me last yr? Also, was it $100. cash & $100. G.C. instead of the $500. from last yr & $1,000. if you break the record??
Anonymous said
May 10, 2009 @ 4:42 am
That was close, especially from the second place finisher on down. Congratulations to everyone.
anonymous said
May 10, 2009 @ 9:43 am
Joe,
All you do is complain Kuhns can beat you. If you weren’t so sel centered you would still be with the ifoce or aice. If you need a ranking to be noticed then grow up.
A-Bomb said (Registered May 7, 2009)
May 10, 2009 @ 12:26 pm
Joe, the tots in Denver and Westminster were quite oily – deep fried, and possibly they were sitting in the fryer while waiting for the contest to begin. I was wringing oil before shoving them in.
Anonymous said
May 10, 2009 @ 10:07 pm
Hell yeah Mark. Great job. Gotta love the tots.
G-Joe, they were fresh jalapenos. They were they biggest jalapenos I’ve ever seen. And they were fresh, hot as hell. The prize was supposed to be $100.00 (cash) but they doubled up. $200.00 cash. They offered $400.00 if you could eat 55 or more.
I guess they changed owners after 20 years.
The only competition I had was an eye doctor named Dave. Heat DOES NOT effect this guy at all. He makes and sells his own hot sauce that it twice as hot as mace. He also reportedly ate an entire plate of habaneros, in mexico. This guy went up in the second round, I was in the first, so he knew he had to eat 24 to tie me. The rules were that you had to eat them within 1/4 inch of the stem. All of mine were either down to just the stem or less than 1/4 inch. When this guy was done he had 24 peppers gone! But every one of those stems had 1/2 to a full inch of peppers left on the stem.
When this guy got done eating he didnt drink any liquids at all. He was eating those things like they were candy. Real nice guy. He got $75.00
The third place guy was a young kid. He ate 18, puked, kept eating and they gave him 3rd place for $50.00.
It was fun.
Mark gave me some advise to prevent exit heat.
I, like the dumbass I sometimes am, didnt follow said advise. The next day was hell in the bathroom for me. OUCH – THE FIRE DOWN BELOW WAS BIGGG!
By the way Mark won the year before with 36? I think. And he was nice enough to tell me about this contest when we were in Pittsburgh eating wings.
Thanks Mark.
"Tiny" said (Registered March 5, 2008)
May 10, 2009 @ 10:09 pm
Forgot to sign in for the following anonymous comment.
Like it will say, I’m a dumbass sometimes.
Anonymous said
May 10, 2009 @ 10:26 pm
He won in Westerville at The Dog Joint on Saturday too. 11 jumbo HDBs in 5 min., made it look easy.
Mega Munch said
May 11, 2009 @ 1:49 pm
I like tots, but I’m not sure I could eat four pounds of children. That’s just gross. How is that even legal?
Anonymous said
May 11, 2009 @ 10:37 pm
lol mega. Dave you are always cool. We need to set another Denny’s date for this fall. Plenty of time to bounce ideas around.
markmartin said (Registered May 15, 2009)
May 15, 2009 @ 12:39 pm
Everyone loves the tots.