Is it OK to eat snow?
Reese Witherspoon has sparked a major debate on TikTok after posting a video in which she shares her recipe for a sweet, icy treat using freshly-fallen snow in her yard. In the clip, she scoops up some snow in a cup and drizzles chocolate syrup, caramel sauce, and cold-brew coffee all over it.
“Snow days were made for Chococinnos,” Reese captioned the video, which showed her taking snow off a car and placing it into mugs and adding cold brew, salted caramel and chocolate syrup.
But her fans had concerns. One user wrote, “I thought eating snow was like dangerous to our health.” Another said, “No no no.. snow is not made to eat.. u can get seriously sick.”
Reese defended the snowy treat, saying, “OK, talking about the snow not being filtered, I didn’t grow up drinking filtered water. We drank out of the tap water. We actually put our mouths on the tap and then sometimes like in the summer, when it was hot, we drank out of the hose, like, we put our mouth on the hose, growing up.”
She even put snow in a plastic cup and showed it to followers, saying, “It’s clear! Is this bad? Am I not supposed to eat snow?”
One fans backed her up, saying, “Fallen snow can be very dirty from the air and wind but who cares. You only live once. I remember eating snow as a kid.”
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Snow days were made for Chococinnos ❄️☕️
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