I don’t know why you did either. Carry on.
You clearly have not realized the sheer amount of food that stores throw away because it wasn’t purchased. Not because it wasn’t edible, but because it didn’t turn X profit in Y time. Dumpsters are secured and food often deliberately made inedible. Very little is ever simply donated because that would call capitalism into serious question.
He should have gave them a Werther’s for their trouble.
Oughta give him a copy of one of those “literacy tests” they used to make black people take in order to vote back in the day that had confusing questions with subjective answers you could fail if the white person grading it felt like you did.