I audibly laughed out loud at this such that the other people in the room (non cyclists) asked what was so funny. I had to just tell them it was an inside joke that they wouldn’t understand.
I will chuckle about this for the next 6 months every day I take a sugary drink from my bottle.
Based on the mess, they are clearly using dino oil. Wax would save something like 50 watts on this application and be cleaner and cheaper in the long run.