What happens to aspirated food in the lungs?

[Evizza]

Hi...I hope you don't mind me asking what may be a silly question, but if a food item such as a Smartie (the sweets) was aspirated 3/4 years ago then could it still be there?
I presumed food would eventually be coughed up from the lung but I read a story about a man who needed surgery to remove a peanut m&m which had been in his lung for quite some time. Maybe due to the beeswax coating?
Thanks and again sorry if this seems a silly question, but you guys are quite knowledgeable regarding a wide range of subjects xx

Anyone have any idea? x

I don't know, but do you remember the guy in Russia who had a suspected tumour and when they operated the Dr's found a perfect minature fir tree!

They thought he must have inhaled a seed at some point.

That can't be true. Surely not?

Honestly! I can't do a link thing - but it must be on the googleWeb somewhere. Tini tiny thing it was.

Most foods aspirated usually vomit cause aspiration pneumonia and antibiotics and coughing break it down. My brother stuck a stone up his nose as a toddler years later it caused pneumonia and pleurisy and he was very sick they did a bronchoscopy but no joy still there in the base of his lung. He's fine