Customer brought in a bike with peanut butter in the shifters

Last Tuesday some guy rolls in with a mountain bike that wouldn't shift past 3rd gear. I popped the shifter cover and there was a thick brown paste all over the ratchet mechanism, smells like Skippy. Turns out his kid used the bike to carry lunch to school for a week, the sandwich melted in the frame bag and seeped down the cables. I spent $80 worth of labor cleaning it out with degreaser and a pick set, the customer just laughed and said he thought the shifting felt sticky. Has anyone else dealt with food getting into drivetrain parts in a weird way?

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