Every trip down the cookie isle, I scan every shelf looking for them. So sad that i have not gotten any is so very long. Maybe I will try making them myselfhaaha.might take a few thousand tries. google_ad_format = "120x600_as"; I'm sorry I just read Pollies comment, trust me Reese doesn't come close, I've looked for years for this cookie, and now that I've remembered it's time to hammer Nabisco. http://www.mondelezinternational.com/ ( MondelezInternationaldotcom)has bought out the snack division of Nabisco. I, TOO, LOVED Ideal Bars growing up and into adulthood. Send a message to Nabisco to bring Ideal bars back. We need to contact Nabisco a.s.a.p. This cookie was by far the most delicious blend of flavors you could ever ask for. What can we do to have Nabisco make these cookies again? I'm not sure I am that good a person. Yes, please bring the Ideal Peanut Butter Bars back along with the Hey Deys, the crispy chocolate carmel bar. My friend (RIP) and i would walk to the corner store (even in th snow) and buy them..great memories of growing up..i miss those cookies !! Best cookie ever !! They are the closest to the Ideal as anyone every going to get unless nabisco starts to make them again. I remember grocery shopping with my mother at the commissary in Newport RI. Nabisco, if you do bring them back, KEEP THE RECIPE EXACTLY THE SAME!!! Bring em back! Try the frozen treat that inspired Arrested Development's famous banana stand. 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! I have tried to find these cookies and can not find them any where. The Best cookie EVER! Nothing compares to the original Ideal Cookie Bars. I hope someone takes the challenge on! Oh my God I too loved them my sisters & I would put them in the fridge as well & I would love to have them back. I cannot believe there are others out there like my family. //-->, Loading images, if this message doesn't go away you may need to enable javascript in order to see pictures. The cookie took a long time to eat, but it didn't last a long time at the grocery store. What Cookies Are No Longer Made by Nabisco? - Reference.com I aqree that with all the boring cookies out there and the market for gourmet cookies Nabisco couldn't find a way to market them or sell the recipie to a gourmet cookie company who could market them. Ideal Barks popped into my mind last week and I asked my husband to look for them at the store. My sister and I would walk to the corner grocery store at my grandmas. Nutter Butter - Wikipedia I think I crave them everyday, I believe I was an Ideal junkie as a child!I was so glad to find a support group! PLEASE bring this cookie back. It's decades later and those of us middle aged and older would enjoy having a cookie that tastes like something other than sugar to snack on. To this day 30 years later we agree there was not a better cookie ever after they stopped making them. Loved Ideals-The Very Best! Please Nabisco bring them back!!!!! I just did, but many voices are better than one. Nothing taste as good as the ideal cookie. Oreo, which the company . google_color_link = "A74403"; mmmmMMMMmmmmmMMMMMM!!!!! it worked for betty white on snl, maybe it would work for ideal bars! Ideal cookies were the best cookies ever. (Somehow the chocolate in Hershey candies seems watered down; not as good as the old days). I use to eat them in maryland. Oreo was one of three cookies introduced by Nabisco on April 2, 1912, with the other twothe Mother Goose biscuit and the Veronese biscuitnow lost to history. Still not quite the same.all time faveoriate cookie ever - even better than Mallowmars! Need to get these back on the market! But they did not stay mad long after I offered them another cookie :). Buy the Grandma's peanut butter sandwich creme cookies or Nutter Butter, but Grandmas is better to get the taste. I found this board in 2011. Those of you from the Philadelphia area may remember that the Ideal Bars were originally made by Acme Markets and were packaged as an Acme product until Nabisco bought the recipe from Acme. Make them again! The quality of the ideal bar was high and I am sure it would be a challenge to reproduce today. There is no replacement for Ideal cookies but Little Debbie makes a similar product. we both started laughing when we realized how much we both wanted them! This news is very sad. I had forgotten about them until the other day when I had a dark chocolate Reese cup. !So I can show my grandkids what a great cookie really is! I am so excited to find so many other Ideal-a-holics! Finaly found on the web, after years of idly searching. Hey NABISCO ITS TIME!!! These Discontinued Snacks Will Make You Nostalgic - Business Insider i can recall Sat. Like most American brands. my Daddy just passed away recently @ 86 so these memories are running rampant through my mind. We'd save our allowance to buy them and they didn't last more than a half hour once we got them home. Nabisco also used to sell assortment packages that are no longer produced. My god we are all correct best damn cookie ever made. Sign up for our newsletter and enter to win the second edition of our book. I knew they were peanut butter logs - I couldn't remember the Ideal part. I also contacted Kraft and received the same message as Dan in April 2009. My father and I used to sneak the whole package the moment my mother brought them home from the grocery. The following are comments left about Ideal Cookies from site visitors such as yourself. I'd feel 30 years younger if I could just get 2 packages (okay, maybe three. My Mom use to hide them too, If she didn't they'd be gone really quick. which are offered at higher prices. I miss these cookies too! Why would they ever discontinue making such a fabulous cookie that became so loved by so many people? Nabisco Cookies - Home - Facebook There will always be room in this world for more chocolate and peanut butter. Nabisco could reintroduce these cookies with much fanfare and publicity and then watch their profits soar. The peanut butter part of the Ideals was slightly salty, and that is what made it so good. Nabisco PLEASE bring them back!!! I grew up devouring these cookies, they are the BEST ever Nabisco made. google_ad_height = 600; I think maybe Nabisco, but not real sure. He's 92 now and was asking about them last week. BRING THEM BACK, NABISCO. Come on Nabisco, no one can compare to your recipe. Wassup Nabisco? If anybody ever hears of a petition please email me. I can personally buy them all and will . https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bring-Back-The-Nabisco-Ideal-Cookie-Bars/256146701090663. JPC. Youd be surprised how many companies are hoarding trademarks, Kassoff told The Consumerist in 2014. PLEASE bring them back!!! I did NOT have to share them. And what about them not being big sellers? I still check the grocery store shelves - just on case. Yes, we loved the chocolate-peanut butter delights that melted deliciously on our fingers enough to sit through Lawrence Welk! Every Sunday my stepdad would bring them home from the Fort Mac Commissary and I'd try and eat the whole box that day. Maybe someday we'll get 'em back! Oh man, Words Cant Describe how much I loved Ideal Bars.Its great so see how many people besides myself are obsessed with those little crunchy pieces of heaven. jjcardella@hotmail.com. Oreo was one of three cookies introduced by Nabisco on April 2, 1912, with the other twothe Mother Goose biscuit and the Veronese biscuitnow lost to history. I would love to see this cookie again. ), but they would not last on the shelves. my mother and I would share IDEAL cookies and talk. Well apparently my husband wasn't kidding. Surely someone out there has enough influence on some high level executive at Kraft Foods to reintroduce this extraordinary cookie!!! Dave in Texas - December 11, 2007 - Report this comment google_alternate_color = "E7F0EB"; Chill dough for about an hour. My mom and I were just talking about good cookies that are no longer available. There are no substitutes and I have LOOKED. At this time there are no plans to bring back our discontinued products, but we are always cooking up something new to help you live and eat better so you may discover a new favorite! Bring back, Bring back, Bring back that cookie to us, to us (Sung to the tune of, Oh, you'll get it:) If Anyone has a Recipe, Please Publish It! I really think Nabisco (Kraft) needs to re-evaluate product selectionsand give the people what they want! For months, some Canadians have been searching in vain for their beloved Dad's chocolate chip cookies. We only had them during the winter, I don't think they could hold up to the Louisiana summer heat, they melted so easily. He figured out that, since Kelloggs admitted it wasnt interested in doing anything with the cookie brand, he legally would be able to cancel the trademark and re-use it. Please? I still look for these cookies when I go in the grocery store hoping they will magically appear. Even so, bring back the original recipe!!!!! Please, Nabisco, Please! It seemed to make the enjoyment last longer. When I was a kid my mom sent them to me at sleep away camp since they were my favorite!! Sign up and like! the little Debbie ones don't even come close .Please bring back the ideal. It's great to hear from consumers who are looking for our products because it lets us know how much you enjoy them. I would love Nabisco to bring this delicious chocolate delightful cookie back! We DO need them back - no other cookie/candy bar compares! I thought they might only be a local New England product but see now it was nation wide. Nabisco cannot continue implying that there is not enough demand for the Ideal cookie. There were the BEST! Thanks. The best cookie of the 60s and 70s. LOL I swear I wish they would bring those cookies back. They were such a treat and bring back such fond childhood memories! I keep looking and hoping they will bring them back I absolutely loved them PLEASE PLEASE BRING THEM BACK THEY ARE ALL TIME FAVORITE!!!!!!!!! There is a Facebook page called Bring Back The Ideal Bar! Please bring them back! At that point is when I realized I had the most "Ideal" day ever with my childhood. I remember my sister's boyfriend was incredulous (although he should not have been given stories that I have since heard). I would give up every store-bought cookie---sorry Pepperidge Milanos---for one Ideal Bar! They were the BEST!! Oh My God do I have a story about these cookies!!! I cannot beleive that the powers that be at "Nabisco" are not aware of the number of people that want these cookies back at any cost. "So . These cookies were the best - my favorite childhood cookie. They'd have a hot stock on their hands if they did! Golderberger had some thoughts on the Hydrox, too. I am willing to attempt another contact with nabisco whatever will work. This article was updated with minor edits on September 8, 2020. Always watching for them at the grocery store. Regular stores, specialty stores. I can still remember that taste. 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. IDEAL COOKIES ARE A FAR CRY BETTER THAN ANY OTHER THEY MAKE. My sister used to buy them and hide them under her bed and i would steal them. I can't help but wonder if Hershey paid Nabisco to discontinue Ideal bars. http://www.nabiscoworld.com/misccontent/contactus/contact.aspx?m=cu_form2&age=3&coppa=False&prod=True&sub=335 The more they get the more of a chance it will happen! Signed, Hooked for life. Did you lose the recipe? 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! I so miss the original Ideal Peanut Butter Bar Cookies. 2. Apparently they were well loved and a very popular cookie. Consider supporting our work by becoming a member for as little as $5 a month. Remember biting into them and then dunking them in milk in such a way that milk would fill then void. I kept thinking that it reminded me of something, then finally I remembered these cookies. They were the Best Only draw back was they melted so easily. I'm sure that each Ideal cookie produced will be picked up at the factory by those of us who are in love with them. (Two words: Cheez-It.). I thought that maybe my memory was better than the cookie really was but evidently my memory served me well!!! Wow, how I miss those peanut butter bars. They were the best cookies ever! I am 48 now and have never had an Ideal cookie and never heard of them. Sorry to say but, "Little Debbie" peanut bars (or whatever they are called) do not even remotely compare with Ideal cookies; not even slightly! Lets face it: Nabisco has changed hands numerous times since Ideal Peanut Butter Bars went off the market and, as far as I'm concerned, the quality of their product has gone WAY down since. Such a wonderful cookie, I sure wish they would bring them back!! If everyone on this list did, maybe it would help. I dream of these cookies. TD PGH. Was there a special machine needed which cannot get parts anymore? The distinctive design was thought to have been created by William A. Turnier but Nabisco . I used to sell Nabisco cookies, and Ideal bars were a great seasonal item, just like Mallomars and Pinwheels. THEY WERE THE BEST. I could sit and eat a whole box when I was a kid. Please, Nabisco, bring these back. I might even vote for Newt Gingrich if he promised to bring our declicious little ideal bars backwell, I'm not sure if I'd do that, but I would consider it. I would love to have a nice cold glass of milk and a few Ideals right now. PLEASE BRING THESE BACK, NABISCO!!! Mike Mozart, Flickr // CC BY 2.0. Not to many, and just enough (until the next trip to the store! I encourage all you IDEAL fans to reach out to Nabisco too. I hadn't been able to find those for years either, but found one today (hooray! We depend on ad revenue to craft and curate stories about the worlds hidden wonders. I loved them and there is nothing even close to their goodness!!! I agree with everybody on this page. Gastro Obscura covers the worlds most wondrous food and drink. Of course we stuck pretty close to those Ideals. Nabisco Cookies. I am sending an email to Nabisco to lodge my question tonight. BEST COOKIE EVER MADE!! Ideal bars were the best store-bought cookies ever made. Pleeeeease bring them back! E-mail your local news station with this link. I have been trying to remember the name of this candy bar for yearsI was talking to my mother tonight ( 85 years old) and was reminiscing about the clark bar type of cookie I used to crave.the name Ideal name came to my mind..I googled it and Here I am !! Love them and really wish they would bring them back the SAME as the were! Mom would hide them in the refrigerator, but I always found them. I was broke and Mom was gonna know I wasn't sick. I believe Nabisco stopped manufacturing Ideal Bars because the chocolate the recipe called for was too costly to make. It was the absolute best. I made my own sandwich and helped my self to an entire package of Ideals. Please bring them back. I hated to see that they discontinued them!!!!!!! They are amazing! My mother would stop me though. Lets try this. They were the best. I think it must be at least 25 years since they were available. I am so happy to hear that I am not alone in my love of Ideal Bars. NOTHING COMPARES, not even close.Ideal Bars were easily the greatest cookie ever mass produced,SORRY OREO, but its true. Keebler created a weak version. I have tried to find something similar, but no way can anything else compare. But I have to askdid anyone else first peel the chocolate off with their teeth before launching into the cookie? Ideal bars were the best cookies ever made! TOO. When Keebler took ownership of the Sunshine Foods brands in the late 90s, most people thought Hydrox was the Johnny-come-lately, when it was really Oreo that had entered the market second. LEMON COOLERS! I often times tell my family about this cookie. I think I saw the Nabisco executives all testifying before congress and each one in turn said "Ideal cookies are not addictive" and they had to pay millions in a settlement. We need to all call Nabisco! Vintage Nabisco (National Biscuit Co.) Collectibility and Fun Facts "The levels of lead found in Nabisco's Ginger Snap cookies posed a serious health threat, potentially impacting the brain development of our children," said California Attorney General Kamala D. Harris in a press release quoted in Consumer Affairs. I sure do wish they would bring them back, even if it was just for a trial period. Oh these were my favorite cookies. How do we get to it? I have tried to substitute the Little Debbies, but they are not a match. Really? Please bring it back if for limited time. SURE WISH THEY'D BRING THEM BACK EVEN AS A SEASONAL SPECIALTY. I'D SIGN!!!!!!!!!!!!! Please Nabisco bring back these cookies. After a little research I have discovered that Nabisco was bought by Kraft back in 2000. The critical part was having enough peanut butter vs. the cookie and coconut part. I always went with my mom to the A & P and I'd beg her to get them every time. There was an extra little clot of chocolate on each side of the bar, sort of a remnant of a cooled puddle of chocolate, I figured, that resulted when chocolate was drizzled over the top of each chocolate. Bring 'em back Nabisco!!!!!! The Untold Truth Of Nilla Wafers - Mashed.com The boycott was prompted by the Mondelez company's decision to close its American factories and move production to Mexico. BRING THEM BACK!!! Join the facebook group "Bring Back Ideal Cookie Bars" http://www.facebook.com/home.php?sk=group_90612602794 Maybe we can all get a "movement" together or at least find the original recipe LONG LIVE IDEAL!!!! Here's a look back - see how many you remember! Found these comments so wanted to put my two-cents in on this. As 1 of 7 kids we would all wait til Mom got home from shopping to check out the bags and be sure she got them. they were my favs and can't believe they haven't been brought back yet is there a fb page for them yet??? Us kids would rip the package open and eat every single one; I'm sure my Mother got tired of us finding her hiding places in the kitchen. That brand would be Hydrox, the second banana of the cookie aisle, which these days simply cant compete against the marketing juggernaut that is Oreo, even if it did get a bit of a head start. 37. Bring em back at any cost Nabisco we will pay any ransom. They were the best ever! I'm with you guys; Scott, Jim, Jan, et,al My most treasured memories of the seventies include that cookie/bar. Addicted to Ideal cookies in the 70's . petition: Nabisco Chocolate Snaps Cookies How sad. It didn't stop me - and I would love an Ideal bar right now. In regards to the Trader Joes Pretzels. After reading the previous post, I got in my car and drove 45 minutes to Trader Joes and purchased a bag. My brother and I could eat a whole package of them in one sitting back when we were kids (ahhh, the good old days of a speedier metabolism!). - Bring them back, you knuckle-heads! I can still see the package,,,,, it was dark brown with a flat orange trim.they were THE BOMB. I've been scouring store shelves since, but no sign of them or anything close. google_color_text = "000000"; the real reason is that it was the perfect cookie. Bring 'em back Nabisco it's time!!! I actually had someone get mad at me for introducing them to those addictive cookies. DON'T cheapen the ingredient deck! We would stock up on them when we knew snowstorms were approaching. What I wouldn't do to just have one more!! 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