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Of course, it&#8217;s bad if you&#8217;re in public and keep smelling your hands &#8211; but Basil does smell really good.<\/p>\n<p>I shall now nervously look around the room to see if anybody is going to see me smell that fresh Basil smell that&#8217;s permeated my hands.<\/p>\n<p>I made wikid past sauce tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>even after you wash your hands, the smell is still there &#8211; it&#8217;s great! Of course, it&#8217;s bad if you&#8217;re in public and keep smelling your hands &#8211; but Basil does smell really good. I shall now nervously look around &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2006\/04\/18\/i-love-the-smell-of-fresh-basil\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-the-universe-and-everything","category-vegan-food"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5a6n8-au","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1009,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2008\/02\/11\/twitter-updates-for-2008-02-11\/","url_meta":{"origin":650,"position":0},"title":"Twitter Updates for 2008-02-11","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2008-02-11","format":false,"excerpt":"mmm.... smell of baking bread # Powered by Twitter Tools.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Twitter&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Twitter","link":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/category\/from-twitter\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2481,"url":"https:\/\/www.flamingspork.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/30\/innis-gunn-original\/","url_meta":{"origin":650,"position":1},"title":"Innis &#038; Gunn Original","author":"Stewart Smith","date":"2012-04-30","format":false,"excerpt":"This was a really nice beer. 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