Although well into the second decade of his life, East Providence man Fred Schiller reportedly still needs to be told to eat his vegetables.

“Yeah, Fred’s always had a weird thing about eating greens,” said his partner Andrew Wilkins. “I thought most people grew out of it by their teens, but I have to remind him everyday that he has to eat his vegetables if he wants to be strong.”

Whenever confronted with vegetables either at home or elsewhere, Fred can usually be seen pushing them to the side of his plate or attempting to hide them with his napkin.

“He got through half a glass of V8 before I told him it was made with tomatoes and celery,” said Wilkins, adding that he once caught Schiller feeding his broccoli to the dog. “I thought it’d make him realize how unnecessary his fear was. Instead he yelled at me for tricking him.”

“I like all kinds of foods,” said Schiller. “Shellfish, pasta, a good steak now and then. But look at string beans. They’re all thin and green and mushy. Who’d want to eat that? Same goes for brussel sprouts, spinach, artichokes, you name it. I don’t trust them and I’m not going to eat them!"

At press time, Schiller was seen scraping his picked-over salad into the trash while closing on the house he and Wilkins had bought.

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