Broccoli Hater 🥦 ?! TRY Mayo 🥚🍴

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Chiikawa (they/them) wants an enjoyable, harmonious meal with their best friends Usagi, but broccoli feels bad to them.

The distress rises and they look on the verge of tears. Even so, a competing goal (be polite/finish dinner with friends) pushes an effortful approach: they try a bite despite wanting to avoid it. 

Usagi (the yellow rabbit), Chiikawa’s best friend, enjoys the meal by adding mayonnaise. 

Watching Usagi’s strategy increases Chiikawa’s perceived coping potential and prompts a reappraisal: if this “cooking strategy” works, they can manage the taste.

Chiikawa adopts the strategy, and their affect shifts to relief and a small sense of mastery-pride (“I can handle this if I use mayo”)

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In the “Broccoli” scene, Chiikawa (they/them) first makes a primary appraisal that is high in goal relevance (they want an enjoyable, harmonious meal) but goal-incongruent and low in intrinsic pleasantness (broccoli is aversive), yielding disgust and an avoidance action tendency.

Their secondary appraisals indicate low coping potential and low future expectancy (“I can’t get through this”), which adds anticipatory anxiety. 

Observing Usagi use mayonnaise introduces a new coping resource and raises perceived controllability and problem-focused coping efficacy; responsibility stays largely with the self rather than other-blame.

This new information triggers reappraisal from “threat” to “challenge,” increasing expected utility and goal congruence. Components update in sync—facial affect softens, avoidance shifts to approach (they try the mayo), and subjective feeling moves from disgust or anxiety to relief and mastery-pride. 

The sequence cleanly illustrates appraisal → action tendency → reappraisal → emotion change and goal recovery.