Toast Hawaii

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Toast Hawaii is an open sandwich consisting of a slice of toast with ham and cheese, and a maraschino cherry in the center of a pineapple slice, baked so that the cheese starts to melt. It was made popular by the West German TV cook Clemens Wilmenrod in the 1950s. It has been speculated that the recipe was adapted from the "Grilled Spamwich" found in a 1939 Spam cookbook and brought to West Germany by American G.I.s. With Spam not being available in Germany's grocery stores at the time, Wilmenrod would have replaced it with a slice of cooked ham.

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