Spit take

[asterroc]

A Chinese friend says she's never seen Asians do a spit take nor snort anything out their nose. Can anyone here confirm they do?

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[zandperl.livejournal.com]

And what about snorting drinks up/out their nose? (as in, laughing during a drink so it goes into and/or comes out your nose instead of out your mouth)

[sildra.livejournal.com]

I hate that! We used to try to make each other do that on purpose in first grade (but I'm at least 70% sure the girl I played that game with was white). And then when I was a bit older, like late elementary school through most of high school, my mom and my best friend's mom made trying to make me do that into a game that they played at my parents' dinner parties. Sometimes when there were random guests who I didn't know that well. Occasionally I had to leave the table because I was choking and had to go throw up, because they did it when I was swallowing food rather than a drink. It was awful.

Or... did you mean you wanted me to look that up for you? I'm not sure I know of a succinct name for that. TV Tropes considers it a subset of spit takes, which I guess makes sense, because it's basically a spit take while you're swallowing rather than while you have something in your mouth. I tried a page search for "nose" on the TV Tropes page, but that didn't turn up anything beyond the intro. The obvious google searches turn up people with anecdotes about movies/tv making them do that. So, I don't know? But I'd be shocked if it didn't happen.