- Reese Witherspoon sparked a debate on Friday when she shared a video of herself making a recipe with freshly fallen snow
- Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb told Today that they, too, are eating snow — and using a recipe passed down from Hager’s mom, Laura Bush
- Some people on social media questioned the purity of the snow, with Hager joking that “we tried to make sure it wasn’t yellow, but if it was white, let’s go for it.”
Jenna Bush Hager and Hoda Kotb are Team Reese when it comes to eating snow.
On Today with Hoda and Jennaco-hosts talked about this weekend’s silly internet debate about Reese Witherspoon’s winter dessert.
The actress, 47, posted on TikTok on Friday her recipe for a creation she called “Snow Salt Chococcino” using freshly fallen snow. Soon after, Witherspoon received a barrage of questions about whether or not the snow was edible. Those inquiries prompted her to post three videos defending her snack choices.
Hager, 42, and Kotb, 59, are two people who are To sing the star does not need to be explained.
On Monday’s episode, Kotb explained that the situation is “a whole thing and we don’t understand it, but it’s a thing.”
“[Reese] posted a video of her using snow, freshly fallen snow on her car. She made what she called a ‘snow salt chococcino,’” she said. “Apparently the internet was mad because ‘Don’t eat snow because it has to fall because of pollution’.”
Hager chimed in and said that Witherspoon was even more hygienic than she had been in the past. “We ate snow and would eat it about three days later,” she laughed. “We tried to make sure it wasn’t yellow, but if it was white, we went.”
Hager explained that when it snowed “once a year in Texas,” her mother, Laura Bush, would make “snow ice cream.”
Reese Witherspoon is defending her choice to eat snow after a TikTok video of the recipe sparked a heated debate
The childhood treat has even become a tradition for Kotb and her children.
“When it snows, we get cups, fill them up, take half-and-half or cream, add a little sugar or sweetener, mix it up, and it’s called snow ice cream,” Kotb said.
“It was her recipe that we passed on,” Hager added.
Witherspoon’s recipe was a caffeinated version of a similar snow dessert. She added salted caramel syrup and chocolate syrup to cups of snow — “just because we like the way they taste together.” She then filled the snow cups with cold brew for a “delicious coffee flavor,” according to Witherspoon.
Reese Witherspoon prepares a snow dessert.
Reese Witherspoon/TikTok
To prove the purity of her food, Witherspoon “went and got snow from the yard” and put it in the microwave. A clear liquid was obtained.
“Is this bad?” she asked with a laugh. “Shouldn’t I be eating snow?”
Witherspoon then decided she was “in the ‘you only live once’ category, and here it snows maybe once a year,” in another video, before adding that the snack was “delicious.”
In her third and final video on the subject, Witherspoon said she grew up not drinking filtered water anyway. “We’re actually putting our mouths on the faucet,” she admitted. “So what you’re telling me is that I have to filter the snow before I eat it? i just can’t. I can’t filter the snow, I don’t know how to do it.”
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