Just because you are hungry doesn't mean that you are desperate enough to go for a hot dog that has been laying on the ground. Maybe he should try to make himself more appealing than that.
Edit:
I get it now. Poe's law hits hard sometimes.
Hah, yeah, I'm poor (relatively to being in a rich country with thankfully at least a subsistence-allowing social system), and my for the most of my life undiagnosed autism and related personality disorder left me with many phases where I was unable to leave my apartment to get groceries. It's amazing how low you can end up lowering your standards if you get truly hungry, and have next to nothing "proper" available.