I had no idea. I thought it would be funny because of how absurd it is
did I read too much into this because this is shitty million dollar ideas and not million dollar ideas?
It is a kind of joke community. The premise is basically items you'd pitch in a surreal fever dream where you're on shark tank.
Some examples I just thought of are a bladeless lawn mower for people who want to give off the illusion their artificial grass lawn is real to trick their neighbours and selling disposable latex gloves in a Russian nesting doll style package where they're all inside each other so people don't need to buy multiple boxes of different sizes
Did he leave other food at the table? This almost seems like one of those social anxiety things where he was worried it would get thrown out if he left it on the table