I also always look in the cookie aisle and leave buying no cookies because there is no competition. Even just a small note to bring back a beautiful cookie to me would be one step closer. I would buy them by the case. It makes no sense!! It is such a good memory of my grandma. 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. google_ad_type = "text_image"; Once I nearly cut off my finger trying to cut one from the end that had stuck to the others. I've been wanting the name of the IDEAL bars so I could tell Nabisco to make them again. -- I'm in! I always figured they were available in some part of the country that I hadn't visited yet. O. O U. U U U UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU. And if Nabisco is too stupid to bring back the bars, then head to Trader Joe's! Can't believe they aren't made any more. Hacked recipe available? The history of Oreos is pretty dark. Do anyone remember the cookie back in the 1970's shaped liked a little feet with pink icing on it. Quit messing with your customers Nabisco or whoever owns you now in 2019. Under the Jewish dietary laws of kosher, pigs, the source of lard, are a forbidden food. My sister and I would walk to the corner grocery store at my grandmas. I was thinking of a nice surprise that I could get my two sisters who will soon be turning 50. BRING THEM BACK!!! I was in elementary school and my Mother used to buy these cookies for herself and give us kids two and hide the rest. You can wait around and hope but, frankly, I'd be astonished to see anything of their class again. Again, thanks for contacting us, and I hope you'll continue to enjoy our products. I would love to see and taste the Ideal cookies again!!! Four pages of comments from people all over wanting a certain item back from Nabisco. They were the best. 50 Discontinued Groceries We Want Back Eat This Not That Feast or famine was my and three other siblings lives due to my fathers dreams and my mom chose to buy Ideal cookies with the last few dollars left one week because we loved them that much! Nabiso failed when they discontinued this winner. They usually were gone during the drive home from the grocery store to the house. Please bring Ideal cookies back. Lets try this. 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!! ASAP! It's a crime! I actually contacted them and they said if they heard from enough people they might consider bringing them back. I can't help but wonder if Hershey paid Nabisco to discontinue Ideal bars. I wrote to Nabisco about ten years ago and was told they weren't big sellers. !So I can show my grandkids what a great cookie really is! Price would not be a factor for sales of the greatest cookie ever. You have to keep them refrigerated because the chocolate will melt. Who wants to go to the store for cookies and basically have only one choice???? ISO: Why did they discontinue the ideal bar? - Recipelink.com They can have the goldI just want to enjoy these cookies again. They are as close to the Ideal cookie that I have ever found. I was a Nabisco Sales Rep for over 30 yrs retiring in 2002. the Ideal Peanut Butter bars were a fall and winter cookie as was the Choc Pinwheels. Timmy D PGH WE will prevail. Please bring this cookie back so my children can enjoy them too!!! Nabisco, please bring them back!!! Follow us on social media to add even more wonder to your day. I agree with everybody on this page. These teeth-melting treats were promoted heavily, but disappeared after a few years. More of a cookie than a cracker, these treats were discontinued in 2016. If he were alive he'd want them back, too. 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. I loved those cookies. YOU CANNOT HAVE THIS MANY PEOPLE WANTING THIS COOKIE AND IGNORE THEM. the real reason is that it was the perfect cookie. Down a pint of ale where the Bishop of Ely's servants slept in 1546. These were my husband's favorite & what an awesome Christmas surprise that would be!!! Now - as to starting a "petition" - any suggestions and who would like to sign?! 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!!!!!!!!!! PLEASE bring this cookie back. I think of these cookies often. It seemed to make the enjoyment last longer. Please Nabisco bring back these cookies. I loved these Ideal Peanut Butter Bars tooooo much! Yes!!! These fan-favorite s'mores crackers featured a chocolate, marshmallow-flavored filling sandwiched between its classic buttery crackers. PLEASE bring them back! When my husband & I were dating we used to sit down & eat a whole package at a time ;). I always went with my mom to the A & P and I'd beg her to get them every time. They were by far the best store bought cookie EVER made. Years ago I contacted Nabisco about bringing them back but was told that would never happen. google_color_text = "000000"; There has never, ever been a cookie that has come close to that incredible treat. One of my sisters used to buy them and lock them up un her room. Some things should never have been changed, and this was one of them! I hated to see that they discontinued them!!!!!!! Offer available only in the U.S. (including Puerto Rico). The problem, you mightve guessed, is its name. Come on Nabisco, no one can compare to your recipe. I am glad to see I am not the only Ideal obsessed kook out there. I just stole one of my kids' Quaker Chewy Dips Peanut Butter Chocolatey Granola Bars. They are the B E S T Cookie and if Nabisco doesn't want to make them anymore, then someone needs to reintroduce them. At this point I knew I had a problem. Everytime we get together we talk about how we bit off both ends and used them as straws to drink milk. They were the best. I use to eat them in maryland. These were the best cookies out!!!! If I could stand on the street corner for themall legs would be hanging out LOL. With all these people clamoring for these cookies, I wonder why they ever stopped making them. Years ago I ran across these cookies for the last time while on a ski trip at incline village Nevada - I bought 2 bags and planned to bring 1 home but they didn't make it all the way home :-), Holy Crap!!!!! A lot of people would buy them. The cookie part is chocolate and is a little too grainy, compared to Ideal. They were a tart, refreshing treat in the hot summer desert heat of Las Vegas. They were my absolute fav cookie and I can almost taste one! Ideal bars are by far the best cookie of my childhood. "So . They also said if enough people contact them,. Well I'm glad I'm not crazy!!! If we get enough attention it will spread like wildfire. Sent another email to cis@nabisco,com -- maybe, just maybe it might work this time. My Mother would buy these and send them in our lunch boxes for dessert and they we super-delicious!!!! I'd then take a small bite of both ends of the Ideal bar, dip one end into the milk and suck the milk through like a straw. I wrote Nabisco and sent the link to this site. I am going to keep trying and contacting them. These cookies were highly addictive! I just got home from the store. I can see the package and taste those things right now. I had often wondered what happened to Ideal Bars. After reading all your comments and listening to my husband, I want one NOW! My grandmother, mother, step-dad and other relatives use to work for Nabisco (anywhere from office, management & factory workers). The chocolate had hardened by the time I ate mine. Stay tuned for Chapter Two: The First Bite. Maybe we need to start our own petition to Nabisco! 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. They, too, were far superior to ANYTHING available today!!!! The company was improving the cookies, making them more attractive to the modern health-conscious consumer. I have never tasted anything remotely like the Ideal bars. please bring back this tasty, tasty treat. I'll sign a petition too! Ideals were awesome cookies. Or give it to the Girl Scouys. An eye-opening journey through the history, culture, and places of the culinary world. Still, it was Oreo that, as it approached its 75th anniversary in 1986, inspired The New York Times to write at length about the cookies cultural value. Ideal chocolate Peanut Bars were the best cookie product ever produced. See answer (1) Best Answer Copy Nabisco says that when enough people request the cookies, they will bring them back. I will call Nabisco in the morning. I kept thinking that it reminded me of something, then finally I remembered these cookies. I looked forward to autumn when they would reappear at Thriftway supermarket. Oh so very good. They were the best. I called Nabsico years ago to ask them to bring them back but no luck. been thinking about these lost cookies for decades now! As I remember they were not sold in the summer. If I were the head of NABISCO, or your parent company, KRAFT, this would ALREADY HAVE BEEN DONE years ago!!!!!! Wow, I thought I was the only one who remembered these great tasting cookies. It was one of the best treats she couldve given to us. I think it must be at least 25 years since they were available. Thats not to say that Hydrox didnt have natural advantages. They were much butter than the dry poptarts we are forced to have as replacements today. Maybe I will try making them myselfhaaha.might take a few thousand tries. Please! Surely someone out there has enough influence on some high level executive at Kraft Foods to reintroduce this extraordinary cookie!!! There are few things I wouldn't do for those cookies. Without a doubt we would find them. The name, they thought, would be reminiscent of the sunlight that glimmered through its factories, in addition to speaking to a basic purity of product. So I walked 5 huge blocks in Altadena CA. Press gently with palm of hand to flatten slightly. I do think it is wise for new management to revisit that decision againlet's hope. PLEASE! Come on Nabisco, BRING THEM BACK!! I thought it was a heat issuenope. She would check out with a half full package. I asked the Vermont Country Store to get them going again, I have not seen them in their catalog yet. Get the word out and maybe, just maybe we'll see the BEST cookie resurrected. You also need to bring back the Famous Cookie Assortment. My mother would stop me though. I miss the darn things too. Hope they see it. I MISS THEM TO THIS DAY!!! Nadeau was probably pleased, when in 2015, Hydrox made a comeback. NABISCO..PLEASE BRING THE IDEAL COOKIES BACK!!!! Getty Images Nabisco's Fair. Growing up in the 60's, my mom would splurge every now and then and buy them--what a treat. I miss those doggone ideal bars!!!! Of course Mom would hide them from us and I could not wait until I grew up so I could buy them for myself. Just go and like the Facebook page "Bring Back the Nabisco Ideal Cookie Bars". I would eat them with bananas!! Bring them back. I LOVED these cookies. The package was orange and brown, but I guess it could have been clear revealing the chocolate. . i can recall Sat. I've written Nabisco, and now the parent company Kraft, several times and I usually receive a form email back. The boycott was prompted by the Mondelez company's decision to close its American factories and move production to Mexico. They have a section where you can contact them and request they bring back Ideals. Maybe someday we'll get 'em back! Such a wonderful cookie, I sure wish they would bring them back!! 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. Like us on Facebook to get the latest on the world's hidden wonders. We could not get enough! 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. 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. I suggest we all keep contacting them. I had no idea when I typed the name ideal peanut butter bars into google how many like minded souls there would be!! We used to get them a lot and they were great. I miss Ideal cookies and they were my favorite store bought cookie in the seventies. Yep, I was just thinking of the yummy cookies. I have searched over the years to see if they were ever going to come back. I loved those cookies. Consider supporting our work by becoming a member for as little as $5 a month. they are the best. Dave in Texas - December 11, 2007 - Report this comment I can still remember that taste. I bet they have trans-fats, but I would make an exception and still eat them. There was just one problem. While no where as good as the origional Ideal Bars, they are worth it, for a stared population of Ideal cookie fanatics !! Peanut butter, chocolate and that delicious chocolate. I would absolutely love to introduce these cookies to my adult children and grands. google_color_url = "1F2B9E"; When I was a kid my mom sent them to me at sleep away camp since they were my favorite!! I'D SIGN!!!!!!!!!!!!! I was surprised to find out how many other people loved those cookies as much as I did. . 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. Like everyone else I LOVED these cookies. Even now, so many years later,I have never found another cookie that I have enjoyed more. Ellia Kassoff, a Jewish kid who grew up on the kosher cookies, had gained some knowledge on how to gain access to a trademark that was sitting unused, and as a result, he was able to pick up Hydrox for his own company, Leaf Brandsitself a dormant brand that Kassoff had revived. 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. Best cookie EVAH! The tough part comes when we have to share the news that the product you're trying to find has been discontinued. It just hit me like a ton of bricks. THE best cookie ever. How sad. They were fabulous and I would give anything to have one today. Awww, I knew I wasn't alone!!! My mom used to keep them in the refrigerator. My all time favorite cookie! Well it was about 9 AM and I knew I was busted but Mom wasn't due home till much later in the afternoon. Please bring them back. 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