What’s with everyone telling me the food won’t be good?

I’m traveling to Ireland for the first time next week. Everyone who I’ve told I’m going (friends, coworkers, family) has said something along the lines of “oh that’s amazing! You’ll have such a great time. The food won’t be good…”

It’s honestly starting to annoy me. I love Irish fare. Fish and chips, seafood, Shepard’s pie, pot pies, soups, stews, roasts, anything potato (not that all of those are specifically Irish.) I love those types of foods.

I’ve traveled to Scotland and England before and loved their similar foods. I’m honestly looking forward to the cozy type meals and pub food I’ll have there, and know it will vary depending on where we go.

Just wanted to vent about dumb people needing to share their opinion of Irish food when most of them haven’t been there. Don’t yuck someone else’s yum.

Edit to clarify: A lot of people are assuming the offenders are all American and thus don’t know quality food, the thing that set me off to posting this was when my ENGLISH grandmother said that today lol. Also my South American coworkers were straight up making faces of disgust when talking about Irish food.