Yes, it’s possible to sneeze out spaghetti

When I was six years old, I sneezed a noodle out of my nose.
I was at the airport with my family. We were running to catch a flight somewhere, and suddenly I stopped, sneezed, and launched the pasta into the air. I still remember the whitish noodle curled up against the black linoleum floor. We all laughed, and the "noodle sneeze" instantly became family lore.
As I grew older and repeated the story — either to distant relatives or perplexed friends — I started wondering how in the wo