"I want hot food. Not snacks"

It's becoming common place for beggars to get on the underground and beg for money for a 'room at a hostel'. Tonight's commute home was no exception.

I was chilling on the tube, watching my videos when a man got on and started his speech to the commuters. Similar script that I have heard before. He's homeless, looking for a place to sleep and a hot meal. He has found a hostel but needs money to pay for the room. He's starving, he hasn't eaten since yesterday etc.

I usually ignore this people, I do not discount that some are genuinely in need, but more often than not these people use the money for other things. Out of the corner of my eye I can see him move down the carriage and then exclaim: "Nah man, I don't do snacks. Did boxing for three years, I don't do snacks, they do nothing. I want a hot meal."

He then proceeds to throw the offered banana on the floor and storm off saying how 'nobody cares, same story as the past two days'

If he hadn't eaten since yesterday, why not take the banana to tide him over?