Ruth

Ruth is a documentary about a phenomenal woman. Ruth was a hard working 48 (okay, 55, but she claimed she was 48) year old lunch lady. Children were her life. She spent her evenings singing in the church choir and the weekends putting on puppet shows for youth in CCD at the Parish. When I say she was and did all these things, I mean she was and did before the incident. That was until she had her first sloppy joe. From the first bite, a love affair began. It has been compared to the love shared between Britney Spears and Justin Timberlake. She finally cracked when someone at a church cookout tried to take away her plate with one bite of a sloppy joe left and she smacked a 6 year old girl with a spatula. After she was taken into the police station and refused to admit that she was not, in fact, Mrs. Ruth Sloppy-Joe, she was placed in a mental institution. She is alive to this day but will not respond to anything without adding the words “sloppy joe” onto the end of every sentence.

She has become a popular reference in popular culture, in particular in the college drinking game “Circle of Death” when someone pulls the “rule” card. It is popular to create a rule where someone must end every sentence with “sloppy joe,” and when the rule is forgotten, the perpetrator must chug a whole beer while everyone in the room points, laughs, and makes fun of the “Ruth” in the room.