Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see meat, and, potatoes.
The essential part or parts of something.
Normal, average, typical, unexceptional, or nondescript.
A primal cut (of meat).
To take part in primal therapy.
Being the first in time or in history.
Of greatest importance; primary.
Being one of the pieces of meat initially separated from the carcass during butchering, prior to division into smaller cuts.