Quote Originally Posted by Hotdog View Post
"meat and potatoes" is a fixed phrase
meat and potatoes - Wiktionary
Great link, Hotdog!

I've always heard it as 'meat and potatoes' in any sense. But, grammatically, either way would be correct; culturally, 'meat and potatoes' is correct.

Quote Originally Posted by Боб Уайтман View Post
BTW, in Russian I would rather say "картошка с мясом" than "мясо с картошкой". Potatoes are considered as a more important part, and they constitute a bigger volume of the whole dish.
lol! Perhaps in Russia they are...I come from hardy farm country where 'meat' is "the" thing. In order of serving size: meat, potatoes, vegetables. That's in the American Midwest.