Hoda Kotb and Jenna Bush Hager aren’t afraid of a little adventure at the dinner table. While discussing what Serena Williams and her now-husband Alexis Ohanian ordered on their very first date, the Today with Hoda & Jenna co-hosts agreed that Ohanian’s order of snails and steak frites intrigued them.
Bush Hager praised Ohanian’s “adventurous choice,” while Kotb noted, “There’s something interesting about someone who doesn’t have the exact same sort of vibe as you.”
However, neither of the ladies said they’d be bold enough to dine on the dish during their own first date.
“Sometimes on first dates you have to be very particular about what you order,” Bush Hager said. “Pretend you get like a big cacio e pepe. And then you have like, you not only have pepper in your teeth, but you just have noodles dripping.”
When Kotb asked her, “What’s the perfect thing to order on a first date?” Bush Hager revealed, “I always like a white fish,” while making Kotb chuckle as she added, “You also want to feel demure and mindful.”
Kotb asked, “A Dover sole? Something flat and not very tasty.” While continuing to crack herself up, she added, “Something bland.”
But Bush Hager wasn’t content with just flat, white fish: “And a salad, because I don’t eat anything but greens,” she joked. “Isn’t that funny?”
Kotb admitted such a disingenuous order is “so ridiculous,” telling her co-host, “You’re like, no that’s really all I want.”
But Bush Hager pointed out that you can only carry on a charade for so long.
“And then they end up with you and they’re like, ‘Oh. Mama just housed a whole lasagna,’” she quipped, prompting Kotb to laugh so hard she had to slap her own thigh.
“You know what I mean? It’s so weird. We should just act ourselves from the very beginning,” Bush Hager said.
Today with Hoda & Jenna airs on weekdays at 10/9c on NBC.
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