Does anyone think they will ever bring them back???? The Untold Truth Of Nilla Wafers - Mashed.com Please, Nabiscobring them back. They're calling to me now! And for those of you who say, Get over it, its only a cookie, you have not lived until you have tasted a Hydrox.. I wish they would bring them back at least as a promotional item for a few months, possibly the holiday season???? I have tried to find something similar, but no way can anything else compare. Why else would they not capitolize on the chocolate & peanut butter market in 30 yeas? I have wanted these cookies for decades. Bake at 375 degrees F for 10 minutes or until edges are brown. He will be 48 on Monday and I have no doubt that if those cookies were still around, he would eat the entire package. OMG !!! We used to buy those cookies and count them out so that everyone got an equal number. One glassful was good for 3-4 cookies. Wow, I had no idea "THEY" were gone forever, I thought they were just lost. But no kidding -Nothing can substitute for Ideals. It's nice to see so many other people feel the same way I do. PLEASE MAKE THEM AGAIN. Finally, my father started counting them. Of course we stuck pretty close to those Ideals. Since were so loved there is no doubt they would be a best seller. THE LITTLE DEBBIE ONES ARENT THAT BAD AT ALL BUT THEY ARE NOT IDEAL.THE ORIGINAL..SO CMON GANG EVERYONE GO TO NABISCO AND WRITE THEM A LETTER,TELL THEM ALL THE PEOPLE ON THIS SITE AND MAYBE THEY WILL MAKE THEM AGAIN , My favorite cookie above all was Ideal. Last time I had these was 4/17/80, my birthday, and I'm still dreaming about them 30 years later bring em back! It was the first thing we would go for when we got to the store. Please bring it back if for limited time. PLEASE BRING THESE BACK, NABISCO!!! And please don't pretend that apple cinnamon spice Newton is the . i would love to have one right now. I could sit and eat a whole box when I was a kid. I agree with all of you, BEST COOKIE EVER!!!! Always watching for them at the grocery store. Not like any other cookie . They are close, but the pretzel tast overwhelms the peanut and chocolate to the point where it looses the "Ideal" taste. Not quite the same quality but really close. I'm 51 years old now, and my only fear is that if Nabisco ever introduces this cookie again, I would promptly buy a couple of packages of them, pour a nice glass of cold milk, eat through the first package, and probably a few of the second. I still check the grocery store shelves - just on case. I contacted Nabisco one time they said they could find no record of them ever making such a cookie. Even just a small note to bring back a beautiful cookie to me would be one step closer. Please, Please make them again!!!! Lets band together!!! 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. Still not quite the same.all time faveoriate cookie ever - even better than Mallowmars! Nabisco kept the other fruit-flavored Newtons (raspberry, strawberry). Where did they go and why did they stop making them? Crazy.. Nabisco Ideal Bars were by far, the best cookie ever. Yesterday a friend gave me a homemade treat that reminded me a lot of Ideal Bars. The problem, of course, was probably the name. Like us on Facebook to get the latest on the world's hidden wonders. Im sitting here telling my son about my favorite cookie of all time, Ideal peanut butter chocolate bars, they remind me of my child hood, I was so sad and disappointed when they stop selling them, I remember asking my mom to look for them if she ever went out of town, but we never found them anywhere . NABISCO, WHY DID YOU STOP MAKING THEM???!!! Please bring back the best cookie everIdeal cookies!! 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. You'd make a bundle on themhealth-kick or not, people loved theseand you don't break what's not broken. And even if theyll always be the second banana compared to Oreo, they have a spot in the grocery store again. What could be better. I grew up on them and have many memories of hiding them from my sister. Even though I feel cookies made from scratch using the finest ingredients can't be beat. These were absolutely the best.I don't remember when they stopped making these, but I DO recall not finding them at the stores and, after a while, forgetting about them, until recently.yes, they only came out in the fall because the delicate chocolate coating would melt in the heat of summer, so they weren't shipped then. They were awesome. My husband and I started to think maybe we had dreamed about Ideal Cookies. google_color_border = "E7F0EB"; I used to scour grocery store shelves for packages and buy them out. Like everyone else I LOVED these cookies. The chocolate had hardened by the time I ate mine. Oreo Big Stuf was introduced in 1984 and was about 10 times the size of a traditional Oreo. My father and I used to eat these all the time in the 70's. As a holiday ritual, my brother Steve and I used to sneak away early from family dinners and drive to the local WaWa grocery store to buy Ideal cookies. I have tried to substitute the Little Debbies, but they are not a match. We need to bring thse back. Sounds like this cookie has a "Cult" followingha! Nabisco Cookies - Home - Facebook Yes Bring Ideal Bars back! I just saw this Comment Page Today; I Agree with Brenda who wrote earlier this very day, and so many, many others eho commented over the past 12 years, that IDEAL COOKIES were the Absolute Best snack of childhood and beyond, to whenever they stopped being made. 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. Years later my husband and I used to joke about it being a "single serving package" because for us it was. I have searched over the years to see if they were ever going to come back. The Oreo is a cookie that embraces contradictions, wrote architecture critic Paul Golderberger. I have NEVER tasted another cookie that was anywhere near as great as Ideals. I won't have to SHARE!! An eye-opening journey through the history, culture, and places of the culinary world. I have never tried them. It was a special treat when we were growing up, and, between me, my 5 siblings, and my mom, they didn't last an hour. I would love for my grandchildren to experience the best taste I have EVER tasted in my lifetime! Bring them back to way up north in Maine!! The critical part was having enough peanut butter vs. the cookie and coconut part. If I have to bake them myself in order to enjoy them again, I DON'T MIND, because it would be worth the time in the kitchen making them from scratch, by hand!!!!! we both started laughing when we realized how much we both wanted them! They were great. I have found a cookie bar made by Little Debbie snacks, called peanut butter crunch bars. Great to see all the Love. They were the best. LET'S GET MOVING ON THIS! If you all really want to do something about it, go to the Nabisco website. Please, please consider bringing them back!! I loved these cookies! Submit a link to more information about Ideal Cookies. I too wish they would bring them back. I also have food pages for the 80s and 90s. Reminds me of my mom, too. "So . It is Little Debbie Peanut Butter Crunch cookie bars. to see if I can find these cookies. Very similar to my memory of the Ideal Peanut Butter bars but not made as well. They are the B E S T Cookie and if Nabisco doesn't want to make them anymore, then someone needs to reintroduce them. Miss them so much. The reason the taste of those cookies is still memorable to so many people is simplethe high salt content of the peanut butter and the quality of the dark chocolate they used was a terrific combination. I love the peanut butter filled pretzels at Trader Joe's, so I may just have to try it. Does nabisco still make uneeda biscuits? That is one of the many great memories of my childhood. Surely someone out there has enough influence on some high level executive at Kraft Foods to reintroduce this extraordinary cookie!!! I found that the peanut butter Twix is similar, but these are hard to find. What happened to the Ideal Bars Nabisco used to make Dark - Answers Ideal Chocolate Peanut Bars -- oh man do I miss those. Snack Catastrophe: Ginger Snaps Move South of the - Dan's Papers These teeth-melting treats were promoted heavily, but disappeared after a few years. There was only one store in our little town that carried them. I have been craving them for years. Grew up in the Detroit area . My mother would stop me though. I would buy them by the case. I know it sounds crazy but all of these comments made me feel better. They were hands down THE BEST cookies EVER made!!!! In the 80's, I believe, Ideal just didn't sell that well, and they were discontinued; I have a feeling that as the price crept higher and higher, many of the brands that were never featured were ignored. Sorry, Belinda, Peanut Butter Twix is not even close! Those packages sure did go fast! (Somehow the chocolate in Hershey candies seems watered down; not as good as the old days). I am sending an email to Nabisco to lodge my question tonight. Please, please bring them back! No other cookie compares. 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More and a few times we paid for an empty pack. I figured like some of the old candy from the 60s is still made regionall that these cookies would be too. "Once Upon A Time" I was told that Nabisco discontinued production of these cookies because of the heat factor in shipping (chocolate melting, etc.) -- I'm in! I can still taste them and remember the orange and clear cellophane package. I wish I could get through to Kraft/Nabisco! Please lets get them back.. She spread smooth peanut butter between two ritz crackers. I totally agree. I used to look forward to our Sunday visits to my grandparents. I used to demolish a whole strip of them at once. See. This site was so fun to find. These were my favorite treat as a child! 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. I grew up on them as treats and have been looking for them for YEARS!!!!!!! E-mail your local news station with this link. After 30 years of no Ideal ccokies they musthave been to good for us m ere mortals. Please bring them back! I can't go in to the cookie isle without looking for them. I would love to see and taste the Ideal cookies again!!! Pleeeeease bring them 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. We should all go to Nabisco.com and start a write in campaign to resurrect them! Nothing else compares. I too loved these wonderful cookies. SHAME ON YOU NABISCO. I actually contacted them and they said if they heard from enough people they might consider bringing them back. OMG I have the same problem finding Nalley's Chip dip in all stores, another one of those tastes from the past My sister and I just got back from a road trip down the coast of Oregon and then back up I-5 going North. 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! It just so happened to be a day when Dad took an Ideal bar headcount. Heaven on earth! The best ever cookie. PLEASE!!!!! Far better than anything out their now!!! I do think it is wise for new management to revisit that decision againlet's hope. I actually wrote to the Vermont Country Store asking them to see if they could find them. Litte Debbie's are okay, but not great - and although the concept of dipping nutter butters in chocolate is appealing - it's not really like an Ideal bar. Bring them back, who cares what the price is. Well, put it this way: Nilla wafers have an estimated annual growth rate of 45.8%, according to Tastewise. I don't believe Nabisco would ship them during the summer months, at least here in New England. Dropping them made no sense! JPC. They were the absolute best cookie I ever ate. You can find alot of copycat recipes for these cookies if you google "ideal nabisco cookie bars". I just got finished telling my kids about the best cookie I ever had-the Ideal bar- and wondered what happened to them. We looked so forward to going to the store and getting a couple packs to share. Let me know! Mondelez International, the Illinois-based parent company that makes Oreo cookies, announced in July that it plans to invest $130 million in four state-of-the-art manufacturing lines that will. I can still see the package,,,,, it was dark brown with a flat orange trim.they were THE BOMB. They get all this old stuff that is hard to find, unfortunately I never heard anything from them. Pretty rich. My Dad started hiding them in the hall closet, but we still found them!!! I hated to see that they discontinued them!!!!!!! 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. I was sitting in bed and the name just came back to me so I Googled "Ideal"! The following are comments left about Ideal Cookies from site visitors such as yourself. The closest thing I found to these are the little Debbie peanut Butter bars that are very simular in shape. Once I nearly cut off my finger trying to cut one from the end that had stuck to the others. I just got home from the store. It's always about the money. My Mom and I ate so many packages of these we should be ashamed! However, Reeses sticks are too sweet and less rich than the Idea Bar. That is absurd in a world where Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are one of Hershey's #1 sale items. I would bite off one end and submerge it in a glass of ice cold milk, it would absorb the milk and the center would be soft encased in the crunchy chocolate. I'm on a mission now!!! Still my favorite cookie of all times! to which he replied, they were no longer stocking them on shelves in the warmer months. WOW! Nabisco also used to sell assortment packages that are no longer produced. Hope they see it. I'D SIGN!!!!!!!!!!!!! I've been scouring store shelves since, but no sign of them or anything close. All the other cookies out there except for Pinwheels, Mallowmars and maybe a few others aren't any good; in fact they are terrible compared to Ideal. What Cookies Are No Longer Made by Nabisco? - Reference.com I love Ideal cookies!!! These were the best cookies out!!!! I have to do a thorough search in the cookie aisle a couple of times a year. Winner will be selected at random on 04/01/2023. I thought about these cookies last night and made a note to Google them to see if they're still made. Wouldn't you think Nabisco would want make some bucks and satisfy the public by bringing this cookie back to market? We need to contact Nabisco a.s.a.p. Please please PLEASE bring them back! Are there any other theories out there? PLEASE bring this cookie back. Come on you guys bring them back. The legacy of Sunshine Biscuits also didnt suffer too badly, and Jacob Loose died a rich man. I am still looking for "Turkish Delights" myself. With my father it was always a toss up either the pinwheels or the Ideals, 95% the time it was the Ideals, one of the best of store bought cookies ever. I found this site this morning. Unite. I was hoping to put the Ideal Bar in my search engine and find them on line somewhere. It's great to hear from consumers who are looking for our products because it lets us know how much you enjoy them. susieb37@yahoo.com. 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. PLEASE bring them back - it's been like 30 years or more! I'm not sure I am that good a person. I must say that I am rather in accord with the previous statement by Tom. These cookies RULED! 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! I remember hiding them to keep them for myself. 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 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. The best cookie of the 60s and 70s. When mom would buy them at the grocer's she had to hide them!!! Dark chocolate over crunchy peanut butter, I can almost taste them. Those cookies were both of our favorites. Nabisco we NEED these cookies! I think about them all the time. i.ve been looking for those ideal bars everywhere.when i was younger i used to babysit i took my money and go to the store and buey ideal bars and eat the whole package they were so good.i wish they would bring them back!!!!!!!!!! Maybe they cost too much for the average consumer but we average consumers have changed and will gladly pay for quality. They were the Cadillac of commercial cookies. Please Nabisco, make a good business decision and bring these back. The Streett Family. The Hydroxs ornamental pattern is at once cruder and more delicate than the Oreos; the ridges around the edge are longer and deeper, but the center comprises stamped-out flowers, a design more intricate than the Oreo pattern, he stated. Please bring them back, Nabisco! I think of these cookies often. I have thought for years that they would come back. Sorry to say but, "Little Debbie" peanut bars (or whatever they are called) do not even remotely compare with Ideal cookies; not even slightly! I am so disappointed they have discontinued them. These cookies were the best - my favorite childhood cookie. I think the chocolate was dark if I remember correctly. I found the FB page but there isn't enough activity to turn the heads of Nabisco. I still remember them and I'm going to write to Nabisco/Kraft asking them to bring them back! Please Nabisco bring them back!!!!! After reading all your comments and listening to my husband, I want one NOW! Nabisco are you listening? Anyone ever track down the recipe from Nabisco? Roll into small balls and place on ungreased or parchment lined cookie sheets. OMG!!!!! Follow us on social media to add even more wonder to your day. You need more diversity than this to keep my business!!! What a great bday present that would be - a package of Ideal Bars!!!! I also LOVED Ideal Cookie bars. Gratitude to whomever started this stream so that I could possibly get this out of my system. :(. I just for the heck of it thought I would search this cookie as I think of them ALL THE TIME.I have NEVER EVER had another cookie to compare to these.PLEASE COME BACK - IDEAL COOKIE BARS !!! 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). Ideal cookies were a great part of childhood. Dave in Texas - December 11, 2007 - Report this comment The real chocolate coating made them a seasonal cookie. (sigh) Why Nabisco why? When we wanted peanut butter and chocolate at my house when I was a kid in the '60s and '70s, these are what we ALWAYS got. Please Nabisco, Ideal or whomever owns the recipebring them back! Little Debbies just don't work for me. I loved these when I was a little girl. I loved these Ideal Peanut Butter Bars tooooo much! I would love to see Nabisco bring them back for my family. Through the years I told so many people that my ALL TIME FAVORITE STORE BOUGHT COOKIE was Nabisco's Ideal cookies. Reeses' stix are not the same but still evoke some of the same taste. I am 48 now and have never had an Ideal cookie and never heard of them. It was discontinued after seven years, but we would love to have just one more of these tasty treats. 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. As a matter of fact,they were terrible. I moved from Cali to Texas in 1980, Texas didn't have anybummer. Four pages of comments from people all over wanting a certain item back from Nabisco. been thinking about these lost cookies for decades now! Too bad Nabisco/Mondel. For the longest time, I refused to believe that Ideal bars (we always called them bars) weren't being made anymore. Maybe we need to start our own petition to Nabisco! To the lady who stated that little debbie bars tasted like the ideal bars, must not ever had the real Nabisco Ideal bars. My father and I used to sneak the whole package the moment my mother brought them home from the grocery. I'm looking for a cookie that my dad and I used to eat when i was little I belive they were Heydays or maydays similar to a 1000 Grand bar with wafer cookie and carmel and rice krispies does anyone remember??????? I look for them everytime I go to the store. Timmy D PGH WE will prevail. They were the best ever! To this day 30 years later we agree there was not a better cookie ever after they stopped making them. Finally I googled and found this site. THE best cookie ever. Then I just took one, so he could not be sure if his count was off one. 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!). I just got finished eating Reese's Sticks that I had gotten from the fridge and I thought of the Ideal cookies!! Nabisco cannot continue implying that there is not enough demand for the Ideal cookie. They were amazing! My sister and I wear talking about these cookies and I had to google them. Fact check: Oreos maker Nabisco is not sending US jobs to Mexico Then he started pre-bagging them for lunch. "Little Debbie" calls them "Peanut Butter Crunch Bars". I think what made these cookies so incredible was the crunchy cookie portion of it, the peanut butter filling which had finely chopped peanuts in it, and the EXCEPTIONAL quality of the chocolate that enrobed this cookie. Hands down the #1 cookie of all time. My husband raves about Ideal cookies. 1901 The name Nabisco is first used as part of a name for a sugar wafer. I loved them, too! DON'T cheapen the ingredient deck! They were fabulous and I would give anything to have one today. Unfortunately in todays society, the squeezy wheel gets the oil. Check out Little Debbie's substitute, Peanut Butter Crunch Bars: http://www.littledebbie.com/products/PBBars.asp I can't peel the chocolate off them like I did on the Ideals, but they're quite acceptable. I'll bet Elvis did too! Same with everything else, you love something, they quit making it. 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. The company was improving the cookies, making them more attractive to the modern health-conscious consumer. What can we do to have Nabisco make these cookies again? I would give up every store-bought cookie---sorry Pepperidge Milanos---for one Ideal Bar! YOU CANNOT HAVE THIS MANY PEOPLE WANTING THIS COOKIE AND IGNORE THEM. Kim McMiller Associate Director, Consumer Relations. This is a dark time in cookie history, one Hydrox partisan, Gary Nadeau, wrote, according to the Wall Street Journal. Best cookie ever made.Dad hid them from me and I hid them from him. Please bring them back Nabisco!!! 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. I wish I or someone could buy the reciepe and bring them back. They were definitely one of the best cookies made!! I thought they might only be a local New England product but see now it was nation wide. I loved them and there is nothing even close to their goodness!!! I do not know why Nabisco do not hear the voices crying. My grandmother used to always have Ideal cookies in her cabinet when she lived in Arizona. Bring them back! Pleeeeeeaaaaasssse, bring these cookies back. "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. My son has never had one. I would put them in the fridge. I miss them!! Nabisco Cookies. I was telling some co-workers about Ideal cookies the other day and one of them googled the name. I havent had an Ideal cookie in about 45 years but they are still my favorite cookie- bar none. There were the BEST! Shopping with 5 children apparently wasn't easy, so she would bribe us with Ideal bars. Visit a sweet shop selling one of the first candies ever made and sold in America. One of the best cookies ever made. Absolutly loved 'em and as kids growing up in the 70's fought over them.