This is my brother Eric. He likes bacon. If you can believe it, he likes bacon more than me. And I ate 21 pieces of bacon for breakfast once.

Over the past few years of stocking stuffers his bacon-themed collection has grown: bacon style Band-Aids, bacon print luggage tags and the newly added piece-de-resistance, strawberry-flavoured Gummy Bacon.

Can you believe that, according to salesman, that I was the first person ever to purchase this item?