10 strangest TV character food obsessions

Milk and Pepsi — Laverne and Shirley

Laverne and Shirley was a classic television show, spun off from Happy Days. Both Laverne and Shirley were single girls living in Milwaukee, working in a bottling factory. Shirley was the uptight square with a serious boyfriend, and Laverne was her much more worldly friend with the ‘L’ sewn onto all her sweaters.

There were a lot of quirky things about these two ladies, but Laverne’s drink of choice may have been the weirdest. She enjoyed an ice cold glass of milk and Pepsi, and nobody can understand how she can choke it down. I’ve eaten (and drank) some weird things in my life, and I definitely love good mix of unusual textures, but I just don’t know how my body would react to such a concoction.

Penny Marshall played the role of Laverne on the hit show, and the drink was a carryover from her real life. The actress enjoys the mix in her real life, so she begged for the character to like it as well. Marshall tells the story about how she happened upon the favorite when she didn’t rinse a glass of milk out well enough, and poured Pepsi on top it. The rest is TV history.