At family gatherings we still all long for these fabulous cookies. I have been craving them for years. I really think Nabisco (Kraft) needs to re-evaluate product selectionsand give the people what they want! I called Nabsico years ago to ask them to bring them back but no luck. Nabisco the market for them is ready and waiting!!!! I have tried to find these cookies and can not find them any where. I have NEVER tasted another cookie that was anywhere near as great as Ideals. Oh yesHow I remember those cookies "Ideal Cookies" they were the best cookie I have every eatenI wish Nabisco would make them again. I would buy them in a second if they were around, and I have pretty much sworn off all sugar. They were even better cold. Does nabisco still make uneeda biscuits? There was only one store in our little town that carried them. You'd make a bundle on themhealth-kick or not, people loved theseand you don't break what's not broken. I just got home from the store. Go figure! So many people would buy them just for the memories. 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. Dip cookies in the melted dark chocolate and let cool in the freezer. Were screwed. There's nothing left. I have tried to find an alternative over the years, to no avail. The loss of these cookies was devastating. I remember his yelling about the peanut butter bars, and I would feign ignorance. I hated to see that they discontinued them!!!!!!! I HAVE TO HAVE ONE .OUR KIDS NEVER EVEN TASTED ONE IF WE ALL WRITE TO NABISCO ABOUT THEM ,MAYBE THEY WILL CONSIDER MAKING THEM AGAIN .I DONT CARE IF THEY ARE 10 BUCKS A BAG LOL WELL,I DO BUT I WOULD PAY IT FOR IDEAL COOKIE BARS. She had the idea of looking for them online. These were a chocolate covered cookie shaped like a small candybar. Regular stores, specialty stores. I would, I loved them. C'mon, Nabisco!!! Mike Mozart, Flickr // CC BY 2.0. I have found a cookie bar made by Little Debbie snacks, called peanut butter crunch bars. I remember Ideal Bars as a kid,and really disappointed that they discontinued them.NABISCO WAKE UP, PEOPLE WANT THEM BACK.Little Debbie would be close with their version if they used dark chocolateBut Ideal is no.1 in my opinion. Will have to try another e-mail address. But the cookies design, which was initially sold with an exotic English biscuit twist, was pretty interesting for its era: With an industrial press from a mold, the cookie took on the look of a flower. That cookie holds the best childhood memories ever. I always thought they should have packaged them as candy bars since that's basically what they were. Along with that - bring back pudding pops! Nabisco we NEED these cookies! They were definitely the BEST cookies 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 . The world needs Ideal Bar cookies now more than ever! I loved those cookies. The peanut butter was kind of salty and my brother and sister and I could eat a whole pack of them. I keep telling my grandkids about them and they can't believe me or wontPLEASE BRING THESE WONDERFUL TREATS BACK !! 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. 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. My brother Tate and I have been searching for them for years and I was not aware that they were discontinued. Loved Ideals-The Very Best! Down a pint of ale where the Bishop of Ely's servants slept in 1546. The makers of Oreo took the design of a cookie called "Hydrox," and despite it's less-than-appeasing name, it was truly the first chocolate sandwich cookie with creme in the middle. I have been watching for those Ideal Bars for years and did not realize that Nabisco had quit making them. Easily the best chocolate-covered cookie ever. google_ad_format = "120x600_as";
I would love to see these cookies back in the grocery store, or even available through online ordering. The Ideal bar was more of a candy and Reeses sticks are more of a cookie. I would eat them with bananas!! Best cookie EVAH! We need to take action for Nabisco to put these cookies back on the shelves, there wouldn't be many in the stores where I live because "I'D BUY ALL OF THEM". i loved the ideal bars myself, little debbie has somthing simalar the peanut butter bar which is a close fascimile there of. I agree I would pay $10 for ideals the only cookie i liked. please make this cookie again! 37. OMG!My aunt worked for Nabisco for years and brought us samples,damaged,etc.I would kill for Ideal cookies in the orange box :)God Bless Katherine. I am so excited to find so many other Ideal-a-holics! Why did they discontinue the cookies!! Theses cookies were the best and I still look for them. As a milk chocolate/peanut butter junkie, these were simply the best! I have tried to find something similar, but no way can anything else compare. 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. I figured like some of the old candy from the 60s is still made regionall that these cookies would be too. Snack Catastrophe: Ginger Snaps Move South of the - Dan's Papers Please Nabisco bring back the Ideal cookie, Check this out. Hi, it;s me again. I was thinking of a nice surprise that I could get my two sisters who will soon be turning 50. It has been years since I have had an Ideal cookie bar and I can still taste them. There obviously must have been a quiet, well financed deal made for Nabisco to "bow out" of the competition! The cookie was great, the package was great. Bring Back Old Recipe for SnackWell's Devil's Food Cookies Not bad, but not the same. I still remember them and I'm going to write to Nabisco/Kraft asking them to bring them back! There will always be room in this world for more chocolate and peanut butter. Please, Nabisco, bring these back. My grandmother used to always have Ideal cookies in her cabinet when she lived in Arizona. I would love to have them again. I've been looking for them for years!!!!! I'D SIGN!!!!!!!!!!!!! :}, P.S. Oh so very good. //-->, Loading images, if this message doesn't go away you may need to enable javascript in order to see pictures. They were my absolute fav cookie and I can almost taste one! They were our special treat. He could not believe the Ideal bar interrogation. Carl J. Lomen used legal loopholes and Santa Claus to build his meat business. Giggles were shortbread cookies filled with fudge and vanilla cream, like an Oreo. Roll into small balls and place on ungreased or parchment lined cookie sheets. They really should bring them back!!!!! Anyway, these little growths were easy to bite off, and would lend a fairly pure chocolate experience, one that only hinted of the peanut butter explosion that loomed on the not-so-distant horizon. I was so bummed when they discontinued them. i never thought i would be so besotted with a
cookie, but i love this cookie and was so
disappointed to learn they were no longer made. We DO need them back - no other cookie/candy bar compares! Thanks a bunch, Nabisco. All these comments make me want to cry, for i too lost an old friend when the ideal peanutbutter bars were discontinued, i am a diabetic now but i would give a little toe for a pack of those sweet logs, twix has or had a p-butter cookie that was simalur but nothing compares i will boycot nabisco products till they bring back the best cookie in the world!!! I had no idea there were so many Ideal Bar fans out there. And for those of you who say, Get over it, its only a cookie, you have not lived until you have tasted a Hydrox.. We talk about it often and it still makes us laugh. The legacy of Sunshine Biscuits also didnt suffer too badly, and Jacob Loose died a rich man. I'm not sure I am that good a person. Not quite the same quality but really close. So sad that i have not gotten any is so very long. Stay tuned for Chapter Two: The First Bite. Is it my distorted memory or were Ideal Peanut Butter Bars only available in the fall and winter? Intended to imply hydrogen and oxygenthe two chemicals that make up waterthe result has a more clinical, less roll-off-the-tongue convention to it, and instead evokes hydrogen peroxide, a chemical you probably dont want to drink. To this day 30 years later we agree there was not a better cookie ever after they stopped making them. There is no replacement for Ideal cookies but Little Debbie makes a similar product. On my birthday as a 'Twenty Something' I asked for Ideal cookies instead of a cake!! jjcardella@hotmail.com. I can still taste them. There was just one problem. The folks at Nabisco must just be a bunch of big, dumb, stupidheads to not want to bring them back. Let's all call and complain! Take 2 Ritz crackers, put peanut butter between them, dip in melted milk chocolate, place on a buttered cookie sheet - load up the sheet with them and refrigerate for about 5 minutes. I can still remember that taste. (Unlike Girl Scout Tag-alongs which are just sweet.) Followed by Penguin cookies! I have tried the "similar" to Ideal Cookies, but nobody can capture that flavor and the joy that those cookies brought to my family. Found these comments so wanted to put my two-cents in on this. I just gotten a surprise,,i was having problem getting pregnant ever since 3years ago that i got married,but today am very happy that am now pregnant and very soon i will be a Mother.. ), but they would not last on the shelves. I was sitting in bed and the name just came back to me so I Googled "Ideal"! If anybody ever hears of a petition please email me. Then, I'd eat the ends of each bar first. Pleeeeease bring them back! Oh PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE bring these cookies back. ideal cookies were the absolute best! Not to many, and just enough (until the next trip to the store! I look for IDEAL cookies every time I am at the grocery store hoping to see that Nabisco has reintroduced them. Why do they always discontinue a good thing?? Was there a special machine needed which cannot get parts anymore? With so many people wanting them I can't believe Nabisco doesn't bring them back--I'd be first in line for a box. The cookie part is chocolate and is a little too grainy, compared to Ideal. Awww, I knew I wasn't alone!!! My sister and I wear talking about these cookies and I had to google them. We kept them in the refrigerator and they typically lasted less than a day. My sister used to buy them and hide them under her bed and i would steal them. Pleeeeeeaaaaasssse, bring these cookies back. Its comforting knowing my insanity has friends. There's one candy bar, Peanut Butter Twix, that kind of reminds me of the essence of Ideal, but still not the real thing. Hopeful!. Nothing can compare , more like a candy bar . I would dearly love to give my dad a package of Ideal cookies. I certainly DON'T, and my not buying cookies shows it!!!! They look and taste exactly like the original "Ideal Bar". At the end of their email form, they give a phone number. I also always look in the cookie aisle and leave buying no cookies because there is no competition. The following are comments left about Ideal Cookies from site visitors such as yourself. My favorite cookie ever! They are close, but the pretzel tast overwhelms the peanut and chocolate to the point where it looses the "Ideal" taste. The rest, as they say, is history. I still look at the grocery store shelves to see if they are there. Someone needs to start a facebook group. But I was really let down. Not only is it dark on the outside and light on the inside, but it is lavishly ornate in its exterior design while being utterly simple within. Need to get these back on the market! I believe they would sell if they brought them back. Oreo boycott (also known as the Nabisco boycott and Mondelez boycott) is a boycott of the Oreo cookie and other Nabisco-manufactured products, including Chips Ahoy! Bring the discontinued cookies I've spoken so passionately for back as a "Classic" or "Vintage" brand. Whenever I eat a Reeses peanut butter stick, I think of the Ideal Bar and how much better it is. The real chocolate coating made them a seasonal cookie. Sporty Hairstyles. OMIGOSH!!!! It seems like the best things are often inexplicably taken away or discontinued. And they completely disintegrate in your hand when you take a bite! Let us unite and show the company. Midnight munchies were also a time to slip away to savor these delectable treats. These were the best cookies out!!!! How do we get to it? Bring them back, who cares what the price is. Then later they came in a dark brown package (and seemed to have lost something then). Why is it that when you find something that really works for you, it's discontinued. I would start with me first and the pass them down to the next generations! Ideal cookie bars were the BEST. Fact check: Oreos maker Nabisco is not sending US jobs to Mexico Regenstein explained that the process of koshering an oven is done by a rabbi with an unexpected tool: a . If a petition is started., I will sign. When my parents bought the ideal bars, it was a big deal. Well once upon a time my Mom bought these cookies and I faked being sick to stay home from school so I could find where she hid them. If they ever do, there is going to be mass hysteria and total chaos around the world!! It will be worth it. The woman I spoke with was quite nice as I recall but had no answer as to why they had discontinued the product. yes bring back the ideal cookie bar! It is claimed to be the best-selling U.S. peanut butter sandwich cookie, with around a billion estimated to be eaten every year. They are not spell checked or reviewed for accuracy. The logs were a staple in my cupboards also. There is a Facebook page called Bring Back The Ideal Bar! Let's bring them back, people!!! Ideal cookies were a great part of childhood. Nabisco kept the other fruit-flavored Newtons (raspberry, strawberry). I agree with all of you, BEST COOKIE EVER!!!! My brother and I would fight over them on who got the last one!! I also feel the same way about the old Hershey 'Bar None' candy bar, which only lasted a short timeduring the 1990's. It was discontinued after seven years, but we would love to have just one more of these tasty treats. In an even more fundamental fashion, however, the Oreos form leaps across stylistic boundaries.. I continue to hopefully search. Come on Nabisco, no one can compare to your recipe. Best cookie ever made!! These were the best cookies ever. Yes, that has been over 30 yrs ago. Gratitude to whomever started this stream so that I could possibly get this out of my system. They were the best. You can wait around and hope but, frankly, I'd be astonished to see anything of their class again. Please bring them back. 1993 Kraft General Foods acquires NABISCO ready-to-eat cold cereals from RJR Nabisco. Four pages of comments from people all over wanting a certain item back from Nabisco. I've been to a large number of websites and forums where these are mentioned the most. You kept the box for Honey Maid Graham Crackers the same size, but significantly shrank the size of the crackers inside it. i thought my husband and i were the only ones that missed these cookins, boy was i wrong. Please bring them back. Brand history. I agree that they were the best store-bought cookies ever. With all these people clamoring for these cookies, I wonder why they ever stopped making them. 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! 1971 Nabisco becomes the corporate name. Too bad Nabisco/Mondel. Surely someone out there has enough influence on some high level executive at Kraft Foods to reintroduce this extraordinary cookie!!! The best part towards the end of them being around, we had to special order them, and then hope to get them before someone else snapped them up. they were and are my favorite cookies,no other peanut butter cookie bar comes close, silly me I thought I was the only one missing them. Nothing made today compares! When I met my husband 25 years ago his favorite thing was an Ideal Bar - and to this day when I ask him what he needs from the store, his response is always "Ideal Bars". They were very good/, So there's no way to get these anymore then? It is such a good memory of my grandma. My dad and I reminisce about them, too. My kids love peanut butter and chocolate, I know they would devour these! I am willing to attempt another contact with nabisco whatever will work. Please bring them back, Nabisco! HAHAHA! They get all this old stuff that is hard to find, unfortunately I never heard anything from them. ISO: Nabisco Ideal cookie bar clone recipe : PJ Virginia - 3-27-2006 : 1: Recipe: Ideal cookie bar information : Halyna - NY - 3-27-2006 : 2: Reeses' stix are not the same but still evoke some of the same taste.