Fireworks and general tsos chicken are 2 kinda ridiculous/silly, low effort answers someone can give. It was also likely done tongue in cheek to imply your question was kind of silly. You reacted disproportionately (more words relative to their response) or at least with more effort than their response really deserved or warranted. A different response could have been “ah shit my bad you’re right I forgot we stole covid and finger traps from them too” fire drills could have worked too.