Why People Once Thought Gene Simmons Had A Cow's Tongue

Of course, there's always the possibility that Gene Simmons has the one mouth that could handle a three pound tongue, right? Well, no. Snopes got on the case, noting that Kiss is "a band founded as much on outrageousness as on music," known for its members' makeup, costumes, and wild stage antics, including fire-breathing and spitting blood. It's not so far-fetched that Simmons would take his showmanship a step further by having a cow tongue installed in his face. The website points out, however, that cow tongues are huge and "had [Simmons] had even a small part of a cow's tongue grafted onto his own, he must have had his mouth enlarged to make room for it at the same time."

Simmons himself has weighed in on the rumor, which according to Snopes, is his favorite of all the myths that exist out there about him. In his 2001 memoir Kiss and Make Up, Simmons admitted that he was "oblivious, for the first 13 years of my life, that I was endowed with a large oral appendage" but eventually found out "that having a long tongue came in handy with the girls." What a silver-tongued (of any size) devil!

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