ricotta cheese

• shortly after moving in to our apartment a year and a half ago I was itching to make a lasagna...I finally had an oven!
• so I found a recipe, made my list, and made my way to the grocery store
• after searching for quite a while for the ricotta cheese, I gave up...and also gave up the idea of making lasagna (have never seen cottage cheese here either)
• shortly after this sad incident, I was at a yoga class and somehow this ricotta cheese story came up
• a guy in the class said, "They have ricotta cheese here.  It comes in a bag near the milk and butter." 
• what?! in a bag?! I guess I shouldn't have been so surprised since I soon realized that many other products are sold in a bag rather than a  plastic container, and at a cheaper price, such as: milk, yogurt, shortening, liquid laundry detergent or softener, etc.
• so I went back to the store, and sure enough, there was the ricotta cheese in a bag

• I happily brought it home to make my lasagna...turned out ok...had leftovers for lunch the next day, ironically, before a yoga class, then came home and puked it all back up
• was it the ricotta (in a bag)? bad ground beef? or the chef?
• we'll never know (definitely wasn't the chef though, right?)
• but now I know where to find ricotta...I still use it in some recipes and haven't gotten sick again
• isn't it funny that when Argentines are in the States, looking for a bag of ricotta, they probably think it's silly to find it in a plastic container?
• the world is pretty interesting like that...