Police are the only people walking around the boarded-up mulled wine and gingerbread stalls.

Some of the many fanciful gingerbread buildings that arose there were supposedly designed by the scandalously famous architect Stanford White and bore a resemblance to the Hotel del Coronado, which opened the same year.

Instead, it was conjured into existence by artificial intelligence and featured a few otherworldly touches, like a snowy village melting into a Coke bottle here, or a gingerbread house animating itself there.

The melancholy ad sees Gary continuing a tradition they shared, building a gingerbread house as his way to remember her.

Her describing it a combination of pumpkin pie and gingerbread also made it sound stupendous.