I’ve addressed this above:

… How exactly do you imagine this works? How do you accept food that you can’t put anywhere? Do you take it, and put it outside, so it can spoil faster?

If you put it out on the street in an urban area, it would be infested by rats within the hour, which would literally make them more dangerous than starvation. Sickness from eating food tainted by rat droppings would leave you with far less calories than you started with.

Why are you like this? You’ve never actually been broke, or you wouldn’t joke about this shit, and you certainly wouldn’t downplay the logistics of impoverished living.

So, seriously, why? Just having fun?

Word got out that we were loading up my pickup with food and taking it to the homeless camps. I did get a number of them to start coming to the bank to get food. But it was easier when I could take stuff to them.

If OP could get the food to the people who absolutely want to eat the food, none of this would be a problem.

There is no shortage of people willing to eat cauliflower.

they had no place to store a case of tomatoes, or cauliflower.

It wasn’t homeless or starving people turning it away. It was other organizations that didn’t have the space to store it. Probably because their shelves were also full of food that they need to give away before it spoils.

If there were individuals turning it down, they probably already had enough food for the day (likely also from OP), and had no way of keeping a crate of vegetables for later because -

storing it is their main concern

… How exactly do you imagine this works? How do you accept food that you can’t put anywhere? Do you take it, and put it outside, so it can spoil faster?

If you put it out on the street in an urban area, it would be infested by rats within the hour, which would literally make them more dangerous than starvation. Sickness from eating food tainted by rat droppings would leave you with far less calories than you started with.

Or let me guess, you think they should just bring it straight to the homeless who need it? Well:

Word got out that we were loading up my pickup with food and taking it to the homeless camps. I did get a number of them to start coming to the bank to get food. But it was easier when I could take stuff to them.

OP literally can’t bring the food to the starving. If they could, the food would all be eaten by the people that need it. There are people that absolutely will take and eat this food because they want and need it, but OP can’t deliver it to them. None of this is about a shortage of people willing to eat cauliflower.

OP (this dickhead):

Have you considered giving it away to your neighbors?

OOP:

If we could simply give it to anyone we would not be in this situation

They can’t give it away. There are unfortunately rules. If they were caught doing so, they would no longer be giving it out to anyone. This is, again, why basic income would be better than food banks.

Not to mention the fact that plenty of people aren’t starving today, but will be starving in the next week or two, after this very perishable food is spoiled.

Why are you like this? Are you having fun mocking the impoverished?