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April 3, 2005
Big Potato (Boise, Idaho nickname)

Big Potato (Boise, Idaho nickname)

Both Boise (the city) and Idaho (the state) have been called "the Big Potato." It's not a formal nickname, but it's another natural extension of the "Big Apple"…

July 1, 2018
Big Potato (Boise, Idaho nickname)

Big Potato (jocular mistake for “Big Apple”)

New York City is called the "Big Apple," not the "Big Potato." However, Betty White, playing the character Rose Nylund on the television sitcom The Golden Girls, the "Sick…

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