The Friday closest to the birthday of Dave Neilson is declared "bacon day".
The friends and neighbours of the birthday boy, who turns 42 tomorrow, visited his home yesterday to honour the cured meat.
The festivity was in its fourth year and had humble beginnings with Mr Neilson and friends Richard Kettish and Shawn McKnight taking a day off work to eat bacon.
The food on offer yesterday included bacon cannolis, bacon gravy and rugby ball-sized "bacon explosions" — pork mince, bacon and barbecue sauce wrapped in streaky bacon then baked.
"That was a greasy monstrosity," Mr Neilson said.
Repeat bacon day revellers Michael and Justine Dalton brought bacon and a block of cheese to the party.
A dish which featured last year "fool’s gold loaf" — a hollowed-out loaf of bread filled with a jar of peanut butter, a jar of jam, and nearly half a kilogram each of bacon and butter and then baked — was dropped from the menu this year.
"Thank God," Mrs Dalton said.
Mr Neilson said the dish was "credited for killing Elvis".
"You don’t want to eat anything else after you’ve had it because you feel a bit crook," Mr Neilson said.
