I'll keep it simple: is it normal to be a vegetarian gourmand?
I take this to be, like Adolf Hitler has been, something of myself a gourmet, it's not that different a diet between the two (gourmand and gourmet) except the gourmands are selective in what food is good food personally to them, with Hitler, a gourmet and vegetarian (and therefore vegetarian-related), he was just as fussy an eater. I can't call myself a very good vegetarian or even a very good vegan (I decided on eating honey, honey is particularly good for you, and the other exception is fish and seafood, including shellfish but excluding cephalopods and decapods: no squid, octopus, lobster or crab of any kind, I know what's good), and I decided on iced tea without added acid in it, but only the freshly made one with hand-squeezed lemon juice which isn't acid but alkaline, and that's it, the other do's and don'ts in my 5 diets have been acted upon for a long time. Drinks of Eno (for stomach upsets) and anything like that, vegetables, dark leafy greens, lots of mushrooms and nuts, more pseudograins like buckwheat and quinoa, it's about what I digest not what I avoid, taking the model from Hitler who ate rather than avoided in his fussy diet. I think I said enough, as individual as my diet is is any vegetarian gourmandism normal?