Eat Cornbread - Get "Thicker"

It's actually funny. As an African American, there are a lot of foods that are staples at my family gatherings, without them, the meal isn't complete: collard/mustard greens, beef/pork ribs (depending on who is attending because there are some Muslims in my family), chicken, baked macaroni and cheese, potato salad, and cornbread amongst other various things. My grandmother grew up in Georgia for the majority of her childhood and then her family moved to New York when she was about 12, so she still holds onto many of her southern beliefs. One southern African American belief is that females who eat a lot of cornbread, being that it is a daily dinner staple, gain a lot of weight but only in the hips, thighs, chest, and butt. It's called being thick, but if a female has this body type, they are not considered obese, just 'thick in all the right places'. It's hard to describe the body type image wise, because the stomach is still slim, it's something that you would have to see in person, but its believed that it comes specific body type comes from eating the starchy, moist, buttery food. Whenever she sees one of my cousins or I reaching for seconds or third helpings of cornbread, she always says, 'now, you know what eating all that cornbread gets you, now go ahead and eat up'. I always laugh, but my grandmother is serious, but when the thought runs across my mind I always think twice about taking that second piece of cornbread from the warm pan.