That is because people have been led to believe that soul food is only greens, macaroni and cheese, chitlings, cobblers, fried chicken, pork chops and shyt like that. My family hardly ever ate that stuff unless it was a holiday or family was visiting from out of town or just once a month after church services or something like that.
What we normally ate was a lot of rice with stews (thick soup), which was made up of stuff like beans (pinto, lima or black), peas (black-eyed, purple huss or snap beans), okra, squash, onions, chicken or salmon. We also ate a lot of biscuits (always homemade), molasses; hoecakes; hotwater cornbread; salmon croquettes, fried green tomatoes; watermelons, cantalopes, berries, peaches, homemade jellies and stuff like that. My grandmother and her sister grew all of that stuff in their gardens and put stuff in jars that we would eat during the winter month when I visited them down there.
We ate a lot of chicken, fish and sometimes even rabbits, but I don't remember that much beef or pork being served even though we ate baloney for lunch every once in a while. Everybody down there pretty much ate the same way and I can honestly say that I don't remember many fat people, except for the preachers; and looking back on it they were probably fat because they were eating all of that heavy soul food.
Weird question.
Do you goto the Gym? I do and Plenty of Brehs be in the gym where the fukk do yall get this shyt.