Cpl. William Farber

Corporal William Farber is a mess officer for the NCR Army stationed at Camp McCarran in 2281.

Background
The corporal is the Camp McCarran mess officer, responsible for cooking, preparing and serving meals to the NCR troopers stationed at the base. Recently, Farber has been struggling to maintain an acceptable quality for his dishes, as it is hard for him to secure a reliable supplier of fresh meat, although he has an abundance of vegetables. Moreover, the cook's food processor has broken down, which does nothing to help his situation. This has made Farber suspicious of health inspectors, who he has been having trouble with ever since he started to have problems with depleting stock and failing machinery, having to bribe them to keep the yearly inspections approved.

Quests

 * Not Worth a Hill of Corn and Beans: Farber needs his food processor repaired as well as some spices to make meat taste better.
 * Poor Meat Never Makes Good Soup: Farber needs to diversify and needs a reliable source of meat.
 * Gland for Some Home Cooking: Farber has heard of Ruby's casserole and would like to sample it.

Effects of player's actions

 * He will give the Courier a discount on his wares if they can fix his food processor.

Behind the scenes
Farber's "You can order anything you want. As long as it's corn or beans" quote parallels the paraphrased Henry Ford quote, "You can have any color as long as it's black."

Appearances
William Farber appears in Fallout: New Vegas.

Bugs

 * For some reason, he sometimes lacks any items or caps in his shop inventory, even after a supplier has been found.
 * A bug can occur when you try to speak to him that will cause the camera to zoom in as if you were going to speak to him but no dialogue options are available and then the camera will zoom out as if dialogue has ended even though you have not spoken to him. There is currently no known way to fix this. On the PC version pressing tab will fix the bug until the player tries to speak to him again.
 * Farber will not take the food additive from your inventory, if you try to give him BEFORE speaking with Fitz. You can use command to make the Food Additive a non-quest item.
 * It is possible to not receive XP points even if you pass the Speech check (60) with Fitz.
 * It is possible to have the food additive stuck in your inventory, with Farber's dialogue options remaining as if the quest is still going, even after fixing the food processor and making a deal for meat.
 * Farber will indirectly misgender female characters by stating that they 'look like a man that shook him down'.