one just hopes that the two ends are sufficiently different to be easily distinguishable.
What makes them think the spoony part is for the ear?
It might have been designed to extract various nondescript gelatinous accumulations from the nasal passages, as well.
One hopes that the user does not exctract an accumulation so large as to allow the user's head to collapse before he/she could eat it.
(posting participant's Yuck Score = 1)