That has never made sense to me! Wow, I was checking the internet to try to find the recipe for my mom since she said they do not make them anymore. The chocolate peanut butter logs were a staple in my grandmother's cupboard. Gonna have to visit the Kraft foods site and ask for them back. They were great. I stated there was only 1 cookie worth remembering and that was IDEAL cookies, It is true, there has never been a better cookie made than those Ideal bars and never will. They were much butter than the dry poptarts we are forced to have as replacements today. Can ANYONEconvince Nabisco to re-make these cookiesPLEASE, I loved Those Cookies -- Mom used to have to hide them in the 2nd drawer -- they were such a treat -- and I'd love to have them again. That really sucks, Nabisco really had something there. DON'T cheapen the ingredient deck! I still see these on the shelf but not the Ideal Bar. Please, Please start making the Peanut Butter with Dark Chocolate cookies, these are the best cookies, there is no other and will never be any other cookies out there that is as wonderful as these cookies. The following are links about Ideal Cookies you may find interesting. Cheers to all you fellow Ideal Cookie Lovers! Nothing compares to the original Ideal Cookie Bars. And that was the keythe slightly salty peanut butter. Ritz Crackers are a great anytime snack, the perfect complement for quick meals, and a versatile base for tasty party appetizers. They're calling to me now! I used to ask for them in my Easter basket and in my Christmas stocking! If I were the head of NABISCO, or your parent company, KRAFT, this would ALREADY HAVE BEEN DONE years ago!!!!!! I kind of make a substitute with Ritz crackers, peanut butter and melted chocolate chips. Not to many, and just enough (until the next trip to the store! My Mother would buy these and send them in our lunch boxes for dessert and they we super-delicious!!!! The closest thing I have found is the Girl Scout Peanut Butter Patties. They are close, but the pretzel tast overwhelms the peanut and chocolate to the point where it looses the "Ideal" taste. I too was an Ideal Bar Addict. Our memories are strong. Still, it is the Oreo that has become the icon.. Nadeau was probably pleased, when in 2015, Hydrox made a comeback. Without a doubt we would find them. But the shift wasnt enough; in 2001, Kelloggs had bought the Keebler brand, putting Hydrox under yet another corporate owner, and by 2003, it had stopped selling Hydrox altogethersans a brief reprieve in 2008 after enough consumers complained that it briefly changed its mind. They were best after being in the fridge. Theses cookies were the best and I still look for them. A mouse got into the cupboard and ate one bite from each cookie -- I would happily still have eaten them all, but the counselors made me throw them out --I still get sad thinking about it!! http://nabiscoworld.custhelp.com/app/contact. I miss the darn things too. Taste most like the original Ideal than anything I've tried. More and a few times we paid for an empty pack. My husband raves about Ideal cookies. Funny that ideal cookies are one of the few things I recall from my early years. Let's get on the 'stick' and urge them! Like us on Facebook to get the latest on the world's hidden wonders. The peanut butter was kind of salty and my brother and sister and I could eat a whole pack of them. The problem, you mightve guessed, is its name. They were fabulous and I would give anything to have one today. My dad worked for Nabisco - when he'd go to the plant that made Ideal peanut butter bars and come back with a carton - we felt like we were in heaven. It will be worth it. I would love to have them again. Why were they ever taken off the market? I can pass up any other store bought cookie but not these. Nabisco reportedly discontinued the cookies because they often broke in the packaging and were too expensive to produce. Is it deliberate? I asked the Vermont Country Store to get them going again, I have not seen them in their catalog yet. Does anyone think they will ever bring them back???? I can see the package and taste those things right now. One of my sisters used to buy them and lock them up un her room. Well being a creative kid I scrounged all the coke bottles and pennies in the house that I could find and returned them with a wagon and got more cookies. How difficult can this be? I need one for myself!). I agree with all of you, BEST COOKIE EVER!!!! The best ever cookie. Does nabisco still make uneeda biscuits? Please NABISCO bring them back. Sent another email to cis@nabisco,com -- maybe, just maybe it might work this time. Oh yesHow I remember those cookies "Ideal Cookies" they were the best cookie I have every eatenI wish Nabisco would make them again. Little Debbie just doesn't get it done. Family-run for more than a century, this pizzeria makes a unique mustard pie. they we're the best cookie ever made!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1. Please lets get them back.. If this cookie comes back with the same quailty as before, I'll will always buy this cookie! I agree, Ideal Bars were the BEST EVER! I have been longing for these cookies and although I could not currently eat them like I did when I was young, I would keep them on hand to eat a few daily. Please? They were the best. Someone needs to start a facebook group. LET US ALL PROMISE TO CALL NABISCO AND PLEAD FOR THEM TO BRING BACK THIS COOKIE. How can those gawdawful Nilla wafers survive all these years while the ultimate cookie -- the Ideal Bar -- is retired? I talk about them and people have no idea what I am talking about. LEMON COOLERS! I just got home from the store. Every year for Christmas my parents would buy me a lot of them for my stocking. I also searched for them in the past. He will be 48 on Monday and I have no doubt that if those cookies were still around, he would eat the entire package. I remember my mom buying these and trying to hide them from my sister and me, but we could find them anywhere! Buy the Grandma's peanut butter sandwich creme cookies or Nutter Butter, but Grandmas is better to get the taste. PLEASE!!!!! 50 Discontinued Groceries We Want Back Eat This Not That I would love to see these cookies back in the grocery store, or even available through online ordering. They said they quit making these because they'd melt in transit, but they make chocolate covered cookies everyday. Mom finally had to restrict us to 1 each otherwise they never lasted more than an hour after getting them home. Midnight munchies were also a time to slip away to savor these delectable treats. These are the best cookies bar noneI still haven't figured out why they stopped making these cookiesI live close to the nabisco plant (before they tore it down) and ask one person there why they quit making them and she could not answer me. They might look up that stats every year and laugh but did they stop to think there is a new generation of peanut butter cookie lovers out there. I would beg my mom when she sent me to the store to let me buy a package of Ideal bars, she would always say yes. It's a shame, and the list is rather long best cookie that I remember from my childhood have tried to find them for years without success used to sneak into my dads stash because they were so good have called and wrote a letter to Nabisco or rather Kraft and am waiting for an answer as to why that they cant bring them back it is so nice to know that I am not alone comforting to know that someone else knows exactly what cookie was so great in the 70's. Well, put it this way: Nilla wafers have an estimated annual growth rate of 45.8%, according to Tastewise. Who knew so many other people loved my favorite cookie ever? I also LOVED the cookies as a child. My dad used to ration them to me and my 3 siblings, otherwise we would eat them all in an hour! No other cookie compares. Even now, so many years later,I have never found another cookie that I have enjoyed more. My mom had to hide them because I would sit and eat almost all of them in one sitting. See answer (1) Best Answer Copy Nabisco says that when enough people request the cookies, they will bring them back. Only much bigger Enjoy! mmmmMMMMmmmmmMMMMMM!!!!! Get them home intact, if possible, refrigerate or freeze, get a glass of ice cold milk, or fresh brewed tea, and eat, a little touch of Heaven! See. It was a chocolate cookie, shaped like a donut, with a big marshmellow on it, covered in dark rich chocolate. When I was growing up my mother would buy IDEAL BARS and hide them too.I have 7 brothers and sisters and when we found them they didn't last too long.My mom would be so mad she would spank our butts.The next time she bought them we would do the same thing.They were worth every whack!Please bring them back,my mom is too old to catch us now! O. O U. U U U UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU. google_color_url = "1F2B9E";
I like having more choices than I get now. My biggest beef with the 'chocolate peanut butter' type cookies out there today is they are all too sweet! I also love these cookies. These cookies were the best - my favorite childhood cookie. Invite your friends to do the same. The Rise, Fall, and Return of Hydrox Cookies, the Proto-Oreo In an even more fundamental fashion, however, the Oreos form leaps across stylistic boundaries.. the little Debbie ones don't even come close .Please bring back the ideal. I was telling some co-workers about Ideal cookies the other day and one of them googled the name. the real reason is that it was the perfect cookie. (Unlike Girl Scout Tag-alongs which are just sweet.) Bring the discontinued cookies I've spoken so passionately for back as a "Classic" or "Vintage" brand. But I have to askdid anyone else first peel the chocolate off with their teeth before launching into the cookie? I miss you Ideal cookies. I don't care which aisle it's in just bring it back. They will always pull a box out right before we were leaving. And if Nabisco is too stupid to bring back the bars, then head to Trader Joe's! One of my all time favorite cookies in the whole world!!!!! I know it sounds crazy but all of these comments made me feel better. And for those of you who say, Get over it, its only a cookie, you have not lived until you have tasted a Hydrox.. When I ate the dark chocolate one, the first thing I thought of was the Ideal Cookie. PLEASE bring them back! I can personally buy them all and will . This was a big deal for him since he never packed his own lunch. I believe that is why they discontinued them. I hope someone takes the challenge on! And what about them not being big sellers? I called it and REALLY let a customer service rep know what they need to do. I too loved these wonderful cookies. I sure do wish they would bring them back, even if it was just for a trial period. Mike Mozart, Flickr // CC BY 2.0. #SnackCation. For example, while Nabisco was stuck spending money on a costly transformation to remove the lard from the cream in its cookies, Hydrox cookies were already kosher, which for decades gave them an advantage in the market. We kept them in the refrigerator and they typically lasted less than a day. I loved them so much that I actually got them as a gift on my birthday. But then I would probably gain 10 pounds! I so miss the original Ideal Peanut Butter Bar Cookies. IDEAL COOKIES ARE A FAR CRY BETTER THAN ANY OTHER THEY MAKE. Timmy D PGH WE will prevail. They were our special treat. Too much cookie, not enough fudge and peanut butter. Please bring them back!!!! We put the lil debbie's the freezer (as close as you can get, but not the same) and everytime the grand kids here me say not like an Ideal!! I'd feel 30 years younger if I could just get 2 packages (okay, maybe three. PLEASE MAKE THEM AGAIN. After a few seconds the insides would be all smooshy. They were not made in the summer because they would melt. Nabisco, are you listening? Nabisco kept the other fruit-flavored Newtons (raspberry, strawberry). Ideal cookie isn't the only good cookie we've lost. The first is the IDEAL Peanut Butter Bars. The assortment packs included several types of cookies and were marketed for families or parties because of the variety they offered. I miss Lemon Coolers and My Dad Harold Hourihan more! PLEASE bring them back!!! But they did not stay mad long after I offered them another cookie :). Devour is the word that someone used on this thread, and I have to say, I totally understand where you are coming from. Cookies today do not compare with IDEAL cookies - they were and still are the best! I guess they don't need the money. What I wouldn't do to just have one more!! We need to contact Nabisco a.s.a.p. Ideal cookies were the best cookies ever. I love the peanut butter filled pretzels at Trader Joe's, so I may just have to try it. Discontinued Products :: Nabisco :: Discontinued Nabisco Products. I just did, but many voices are better than one. I agree I would pay $10 for ideals the only cookie i liked. I am not the only one to miss them SO much:) I would buy these religiously if they were made again. Nabisco we NEED these cookies! Yes!!! What can we do to have Nabisco make these cookies again? I've even told my kids about ideal bars. They were kept in the little cupboard between the fridge and stove. I was looking for ideal bars. YOU CANNOT HAVE THIS MANY PEOPLE WANTING THIS COOKIE AND IGNORE THEM. One glassful was good for 3-4 cookies. The cookie part is chocolate and is a little too grainy, compared to Ideal. Oreo Flavors You'll Sadly Never Get To Try Again - Mashed.com Bacon flavored Ritz Crackers are flaky and delicious with a savory taste thats perfect for pairing, topping, or popping. But when you see fancy cookies today packaged as 8 cookies for $4.00, there must be a market for the hi-price cookies! I am thinking of starting a "petition" that would go to Nabisco we all NEED these Ideal bars back on the shelves of our local stores. There must be a warehouse stash somewhere with these. It was the absolute best. It's a crime! They were even better cold. The Return to the Brown-Edged Wafer - Out of Ambit In the past 10 years or so I have not found them and about 2009 time frame I asked Nabisco what happened and they said that they stopped making them totally. I had no idea there were so many Ideal Bar fans out there. When Nabisco first started, the biscuit cookies and crackers were stored in large bins, or cracker barrels and sold at country grocery stores by the scoopful. My brother DeNault asked me just a few years ago what were those cookies? I'm emailing them as we speak. They were definitely the BEST cookies ever! At the end of their email form, they give a phone number. !So I can show my grandkids what a great cookie really is! please make this cookie again! We would stock up on them when we knew snowstorms were approaching. We used to buy those cookies and count them out so that everyone got an equal number. I just stole one of my kids' Quaker Chewy Dips Peanut Butter Chocolatey Granola Bars. getting the chocolate on your fingers was part of the funlicking it off after you were done with the cookie. Please bring them back. We are sisters who grew up in California in the 60's and 70's and were TOTALLY addicted to the Ideal cookie bar!!! Maybe it will be a slow day and they might make a story of these great cookies and all the devote followers craving their return.. Perhaps this way Nabisco might open their eyes. Nabiso failed when they discontinued this winner. I have the happiest memories of eating alot of these cookies!!!! Do anyone remember the cookie back in the 1970's shaped liked a little feet with pink icing on it. My favorite cookie ever! Sign up for our email, delivered twice a week. The best cookie of the 60s and 70s. Nothing made today compares! Please bring them back. Maybe we need to start our own petition to Nabisco! She says there like a cookie wafer hollow flat log dipped in a rich darkest chocolate with a light peanut butter layer in the middle.yum! Not like any other cookie . Now I know I am not crazy, they really did exist. Sign up for our newsletter and enter to win the second edition of our book. Yes - my mom used to have to hide them too! Another option for you might be to spread peanut butter on Ritz crackers, dip them in melted chocolate chips, let cool and consume. It's funny; now that I am middle aged and have enough money to buy these at any time they are not available. I was thinking about these cookies today and found all your comments. Lots of people WANT these cookies back in production!!! Nabisco Brands History and Timeline - ThoughtCo My sister and I went to a family reunion out-of-state we stopped in to the store and she went around one way and I went around the other and we met in the middle of the aisle I said what are you looking for and she said ideal cookies and I said me too! Just go and like the Facebook page "Bring Back the Nabisco Ideal Cookie Bars". I cannot believe that I found this site. WOW! The loss of these cookies was devastating. I would love to sit down and devour a few of them right now. I wrestled with my weight as a kid in the late 70's, yet every once in a while my mom would secretly buy a box of these rich logs of dark chocolately goodness, if only to show her undying love for me, her only begotten son. Kids can't grow up without tasting these! The best cookie ever - my Ohio farm raised husband never tasted one. Some of these gingerbread cookies take months to make. I'll bet Elvis did too! Maybe we're all psychic and they're planning to re-release them in the near future! He was amazed that I knew what he was asking. As a milk chocolate/peanut butter junkie, these were simply the best! Sorry, Belinda, Peanut Butter Twix is not even close! Does anyone remember how some of them used to be more rounded and others were flatter? Please, Nabiscobring them back. About Trump's Oreo Boycott - FactCheck.org Considering how many gourmet cookies are sold now, it's hard to imagine there wouldn't be a market for these at a higher price. Wouldn't you think Nabisco would want make some bucks and satisfy the public by bringing this cookie back to market? Missed by everyone in my family and we would give almost anything to have a taste of those wonderful treats. Sign up and like! I LOVED these exact cookies too. Same with everything else, you love something, they quit making it. Also, consider licensing someone to make these cookies under your aegis. The Untold Truth Of Teddy Grahams - Mashed.com Every trip down the cookie isle, I scan every shelf looking for them. Nabisco also used to sell assortment packages that are no longer produced. I would give up every store-bought cookie---sorry Pepperidge Milanos---for one Ideal Bar! I have fond memories of getting these and grandmas house! The critical part was having enough peanut butter vs. the cookie and coconut part. Go figure! Waiting to see how it reacts with milk compared to what I remember. These cookies were highly addictive! PLEASE! I still hunt for them from time to time. Lemon Meringue Oreo. . My sister and I have been wishing the same thing all of you are, Nabisco bring them back, "Little Debbie", put them in all the stores where your snacks are soldLiz. We would eat them all in one weekend!! Oreo Big Stuf was introduced in 1984 and was about 10 times the size of a traditional Oreo. Every weekday we compile our most wondrous stories and deliver them straight to you. I'd bite a little hole into each end, then suck milk up into it like it was a straw. Should they bring this back it would totally destroy the sales for all the other peanut butter cookies out there. You would think in the year 2010 they could figure out some solution to the melting problem. Another favorite of mine was TostettesI loved them because they were so moist and full of fruit and had a little sprinkle of sugar on topjust the right amount (cold or hot). i loved the ideal bars, tagalongs are good, also little debbie has a good one, peanut butter bars almost the exact of the ideal bar, i always wipe that one off the shelf, bring back the ideal bar nabisco. I would say that I am amazed with how many people remember Ideal cookies but I am not. I would dearly love to give my dad a package of Ideal cookies. I try every new peanut butter cookie I see, but none quite compare to Ideals. Roll into small balls and place on ungreased or parchment lined cookie sheets. It appears we're not alone! No other cookie compares! Ideal cookies were absolutely the best! I used to scour grocery store shelves for packages and buy them out. Nabisco Chocolate Snaps Cookies by: Rico Hatcher recipient: Nabisco Company If you fell in love with the Nabisco Chocolate Snap cookies in the 70's and 80's, then sign this petition. Nabisco Ideal Bars were by far, the best cookie ever. We agree 100% that the Ideal cookie should be put back on the market, We loved this cookie growing up in the 60 's & 70's . Not identical, but MUCH better than the Little Debbie's version. There were the BEST! which are offered at higher prices. Little Debbies just don't work for me. I seem to remember the stores being out of them during the hot months, then one day they would appear on the shelf and for the next few months I couldnt get enough of them. There was a whole ritual to my after-school consumption of this sweetest of sins: We would take them out of the 'fridge (I thought that mom would hide them in there, but now I understand it was because of the low melting point of the chocolate). I actually e-mailed nabisco and asked where i could still buy them they sent me a letter stating they never sold cookies by that name. I JUST CAME FROM THE STORE AND STILL LOOK IN THE COOKIE ISLE JUST HOPING NABISCO WOULD BRING THEM BACK. Now - as to starting a "petition" - any suggestions and who would like to sign?! The Little Debbie things are similar but nowhere close to as good. This news is very sad. They can have the goldI just want to enjoy these cookies again. Surely someone out there has enough influence on some high level executive at Kraft Foods to reintroduce this extraordinary cookie!!! I have found a cookie bar made by Little Debbie snacks, called peanut butter crunch bars. It was the highlight of dessert. https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bring-Back-The-Nabisco-Ideal-Cookie-Bars/256146701090663. They were the Cadillac of commercial cookies. I would love for my grandchildren to experience the best taste I have EVER tasted in my lifetime! I copied the link above someone posted and left the same story to nabiso, if everone does this, we might have a chance!! I use to eat them in maryland. I would love to get my hands on them again. they really left an impression on me. I did NOT have to share them. To put that into perspective, consider that the overall global cookies market (i.e. Melt the Ghirardelli bittersweet chocolate morsels. They really should bring them back!!!!! They were perfectly balanced, the right size and flavor. My favorite way to eat them was to first fill a double old-fashioned glass with ice-cold milk. We hid them in the frige and I can still taste the creamy, fresh peanut butter. I too am a lover of the Ideal Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars. And I guess there's ony one real answer. They were the best ever! Nabisco/YouTube. THAT'S true love. My mother bought the Ideal peanut butter bars for my father (I don't know why he was allowed to hog them). :). With all these people clamoring for these cookies, I wonder why they ever stopped making them. My sister and I wear talking about these cookies and I had to google them. I think of these cookies often. I had forgotten about these!! What surprises me is they still make the Pinwheel which was the same line..even the same color package..kind of their higher end type cookie. Wassup Nabisco? I loved eating those cookies - Let's bring them back Nabisco! Discontinued Nabisco Products | OfficeWorld.com With the amount of feedback generated on the internet WHY wouldn't they bring back an obvious "homerun" cookie? They would be a big hit! When my husband & I were dating we used to sit down & eat a whole package at a time ;). Nabisco PLEASE bring them back!!! We DO need them back - no other cookie/candy bar compares! I would love to see Nabisco bring them back for my family. Ya Gotta bring EM back they are the true IDEAL snack of all time!!!
