So like this is not a knock on this story but the beat of "oh no something isn't here when it should have been" is so common that like I cannot find it in myself to be worried and I'm just like I wonder what the solution will be and if it'll be anything more than a simple "don't worry I know how to shake up the recipe" and "oh wow the improvised cocktail ended up being really popular"
And I am fully setting myself up here, because I want to be proven wrong. But like ultimately this is just me bitching about a completely harmless trope. lmao
Eh. I think part of why it's so common is that is, well, common in real life too. It's pretty easy to forget something or not have enough of something and then you have to figure out how to handle it.
With that said, given the Ibuki group seems to sell alcohol, Watanabe works at a bar, an at least a few of their families are rich, I suspect this is going to be less a case of "quickly make a substitution" and more "quickly go get the alcohol, but there'll be some complications due to the source."
Also, this is already a recipe Naori came up with and it's not like any of the other students have any expectations for what it should be, so a last minute substitution that "surprises" everyone with how good it is wouldn't have much impact. It would just be retreading the same ground from when she came up with the cocktail in the first place. (Beyond that, the absolute worst case scenario for running out of the ingredients is they throw up a "sold out" sign, but it's not like they're actually counting on the sales of that particular drink for anything, so it's not actually a big deal.)
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