Popeye’s Dip’n Chickn? McDonald’s Rolo McFlurry? Blooming Flower Pot Cake? Do any of these ring a bell or have anything in common?

If you’re a hardcore Foodbeast follower, chances are it’s all old news. But if you haven’t got a clue, according to the most read articles of the year, these items made our Top 10 Stories of the Year.

We try our best to feature stories that you’ll love, and we believe it’s our job to bring you the best and most up-to-date food news out there. Here are 10 stories that really took us by surprise and went viral in 2011, in case you missed any of them:

1. Blooming Flower Pot Cake
2. Literal Hot Chocolate Cake
3. Denny’s Bacon Maple Sunday
4. Taco Bell’s Nacho Cheese Doritos Taco Shells
5. Del Taco Inception Burrito
6. Popeye’s Dip’n Chickn
7. McDonald’s Rolo McFlurry
8. Pizza Hut’s Bacon, Pepperoni, and Sausage Stuffed Crust Pizza
9. Smirnoff’s Whipped Cream and Fluffed Marshmallow Vodka
10. Humorous Domino’s Employee Termination Record

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Lucia Phan has a Bachelors Degree from the University of California, Berkeley in Food & City Culture and Environmental Economics. She is the founder of Banana Slug Edibles, where she bakes specialty cakes and cupcakes for patients in Orange County & Los Angeles. In her free time she likes to collect recipes and will forever be searching for the best chocolate chip cookie recipe known to man.