"I'm certainly not paying for this filth," so he says, but he probably will anyway if only to avoid unnecessary conflict. For now, though, he's going to spend the next 20 or so minutes reading bottles. With so many options to choose from, surely at least one of these will actually be ingestible.

Eventually he does find one that he deems acceptable, and brings it over to Lina to show her.

"There, see, this is all tea should be. Water and tea, how hard is it to get that right?" And now Zelgadis is an organic food snob, good times.