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You'd actually see your upside-down reflection in the bowl of a spoon (the part where the food goes); any reflection you see on the opposite side will always be upright.

The inside of a spoon acts as a concave mirror, which have the interesting property of creating an inverted image when the object being reflected is located outside the focal point. If you hold the spoon as close to your face as you can, you'd see your reflection upright.

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Because a spoon is a convex mirror. It inverts the image top to bottom instead of a mirror, which reflects left to right. Hooweestik.

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I think it is because of refraction, hope this helps!

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