There probably never will be. The warning message, however, has wasted bandwidth and time across the world for over a year. The original warning was debunked by the U.S. Department of Energy and others within weeks of its appearance in 1994, but it refuses to die. Such tales have circulated for years by word of mouth, photocopy, or fax. Popular urban myths include stories of people putting their pets into microwave ovens to dry them off, people spending so long in tanning beds that their internal organs cook, fire fighters running over recently rescued cats with their trucks on the way back to the station, and so on.
Universities are particularly fertile ground for such myths.
Believable, compelling stories spread extremely fast in any community. They spread so rapidly on the Internet that one high-traffic Usenet newsgroup, alt.folklore.urban, is devoted to the study and debunking of urban legends. The outraged shopper, according to the story, decided to exact revenge by giving the recipe out to as many people as possible. This does not, however, keep the story and recipe from being circulated. It turned up on an internal e-mail group here at the University not long ago.