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Corral Hawaiana

    The pineapple burger. A beef patty with mozzarella, a slice of pineapple, lettuce, mayonnaise and ketchup. Sweet fruit against salty cheese works better here than on most pizzas. Divisive, but worth trying once.

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    The story

    Calling a burger “hawaiana” because it has pineapple on it is a habit that traces back to a pizza. In 1962 Sam Panopoulos, the Greek-born owner of the Satellite Restaurant in Chatham, Ontario, put canned pineapple on a pizza and named it Hawaiian after the tin it came from, packed by the Hawaiian Pineapple Company. Hawaiian pizza spread worldwide, and across Latin America “hawaiana” became shorthand for pineapple with something savoury. El Corral, Colombia’s big burger chain, pairs it with mozzarella on a beef patty.

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    There is no copycat of the Corral Hawaiana yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.

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    About El Corral

    • Colombia
    • Since 1983
    • $$

    Pablo Emilio Bueno and Guillermo Calderón opened the first El Corral in 1983 near the Pontificia Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá. It grew into the dominant fast-food chain in Colombia, with an estimated 40 per cent of the market, and in 2014 it was bought by the Colombian food group Grupo Nutresa.

    Around 200 restaurants in 30 Colombian cities, plus a handful in Chile, Ecuador and Panama.

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