Chain Letters Aren't Tasty Even when food is the subject, they still annoy - CHOW

Die, recipe chain letter, die!

There is so little resistance and backlash against recipe chains, probably the hook, recipes in this case, is so appealing that people just pass them on, hoping to please their friends and get more recipes.

But, if you are sent an email with a recipe, and the instruction to send to all your friends, everyone, or x number of people, you've just received a chain letter and your friend has allowed themself to be manipulated.

Recipe sharing is great, but not when the idea comes in a chain letter.

There are non-email recipe chains too, the sort such as the so-called 'amish friendship bread' where a recipiant gets a pack of gooey partially made dough from a friend, with the instruction to make the recipe and pass it on to their friends. Amish Friendship Bread - As If Chain Email and blog meme posts aren't Annoying Enough Beware of the Amish Friendship Bread Chain! Now this chain letter has mutated into a version called Padre Prayer Bread Prayer bread, oh brother!

Originally found at the site of The Internet Patrol

Chain Letter Emails Even For Recipes Just Not OK

Chain Letter Emails - Even for Recipes - Just Not Ok

Sure, there may be some cool email chain letters, but the reality is that they are still email chain letters, and that’s just not ok. The most recent of the chain emails making the rounds is a Recipe Chain Email Letter. Seems innocent, seems fun, even seems useful. But it’s still chain mail, and it’s still not ok. In fact, it’s spam. Chain mail is illegal in the postal mail system, and it’s just as unwelcome in the Internet email system.

Here is the current recipe chain email:

Recipe Exchange

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Amazingly, people continue to send us chain email, so it’s pretty clear that many people have no idea just how taboo - how unwelcome, it is. The current recipe chain email has found its way to us several times.

So, here’s our recipe to share:

Take one email. Add 20 friends. Annoy the heck out of them. Repeat thousands of times. Waste countless computer cycles, untold bandwidth and hundreds of man hours.

Serve cold, to a lukewarm reception.