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"While not a pizza purist in any respect, I do take issue with some of the brazen cultural hybrid pizza options out there. Thai Chicken Pizza as well as Mango Tandoori Chicken Pizza for example just seem to speak to the fact that the world has gone utterly crackers and those four horsemen of the apocalypse are about to unleash biblical terror upon us all, just as soon as they wash down their fusion pizzas with a few gallons of caramel apple martinis.    OK I am being a bit dramatic, but given my pizza predisposition, you could understand my skepticism and reluctance when it came to Kashi&amp;#039;s Mexicali Black Bean Thin Crust frozen pizza. This is not just a Mexican-Italian hybrid, but it is a Mexican, Californian, and Italian hybrid. This could not possibly be pizza?!! Well the funny thing is (at least according to the box) it is not pizza outright. The word &amp;quot;pizza&amp;quot; only appears twice on the box, and does so in something like an 8-point font on the side of the box \u2013 almost as if the food item itself was having a sort of identity crisis.  That said, this Thin Crust product, while not a traditional pizza, is strangely satisfying in a sort of pizza meets Mexican torta way (a common Mexican sandwich). Subbing out the traditional tomato sauce for a mildly spicy black bean sauce and adding tomatillos, poblano peppers, and corn, the only thing consistent element with traditional pizza is the thin crust, the melted mozzarella and the round shape of the pie. Otherwise, it is an open-faced torta. As strange or ill conceived as it may sound, it all comes together in a way that is both filling and tasty. With a crispy thin crust made whole grains, sesame, and flax seed ingredients and 13 grams of protein and 4 grams of fiber per serving, this is a fairly substantial snack. Kashi Mexicali Black Bean Thin Crust pizzas are available at Pathmark, Vons, Albertsons, Dominick&amp;#039;s, and Price Chopper.  "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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