They were a very high quality cookie. Why is it that when you find something that really works for you, it's discontinued. PLEASE Nabisco!!!! My best friend in grade school used to get them every week, and she would share! One of my sisters used to buy them and lock them up un her room. If anybody ever hears of a petition please email me. Nabisco, if these wonderful cookies are too expensive to make and sell in a package of cookies, how about packaging them as candy bars? They were his favorite and he used to dole them out like they were going extinctoh, they did!!!!!! More like this. I google searched "Ideal Cookies". //2007-06-05: inthe70s Consider supporting our work by becoming a member for as little as $5 a month. Like most American brands. ideal cookies are the best cookies ever made. 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! We were just talking about how much we miss them and want them back!! Really? We should start a petition drive to bring them back.. They were even better cold. They said they quit making these because they'd melt in transit, but they make chocolate covered cookies everyday. SHAME ON YOU NABISCO. I am now 58 years old and have never found a cookie that comes close to the ideal peanut butter log. My Mother would buy these and send them in our lunch boxes for dessert and they we super-delicious!!!! nostalgia) things are "In" right now. Best sweets I ever ate!!! The woman I spoke with was quite nice as I recall but had no answer as to why they had discontinued the product. Bring 'em back Nabisco it's time!!! These were the best cookies ever. Buy the Grandma's peanut butter sandwich creme cookies or Nutter Butter, but Grandmas is better to get the taste. Or give it to the Girl Scouys. mmmmMMMMmmmmmMMMMMM!!!!! The cookie part is chocolate and is a little too grainy, compared to Ideal. That is absurd in a world where Reese's Peanut Butter Cups are one of Hershey's #1 sale items. These cookies were literally like crack. It was one of the best treats she couldve given to us. I was looking for ideal bars. The cookie aisles at the grocery store today are VERY dull and limited in what is offered for sale. With so many of us wanting them back has anyone sent Nabisco this link? LOL I swear I wish they would bring those cookies back. I keep telling my grandkids about them and they can't believe me or wontPLEASE BRING THESE WONDERFUL TREATS BACK !! Nabisco is a subsidiary of an American multinational corporation. Far better than anything out their now!!! These cookies were highly addictive! I used to hate that they came in such a small package, but that is the size package I would kill for now. The real chocolate coating made them a seasonal cookie. It is more true than not, that if you gave Nabisco a goose that laid golden eggs, Nabisco would immediately slaughter that goose rather then pay to feed it. One glassful was good for 3-4 cookies. Submit a link to more information about Ideal Cookies. Its an idea, and it might be similar. I remember my mom used to buy the Ideal Bar or I think it was called the whirl. . Unfortunately the quality from Nabisco was not consistent. And even if theyll always be the second banana compared to Oreo, they have a spot in the grocery store again. And please don't pretend that apple cinnamon spice Newton is the . The taste brought back a memory from 30+ years ago. Im 55 now but I can still remember those awesome chocolate covered cookie bars I can still taste them they were the best ever cookie ever made in my opinion my aunt that just past at the age of 95 still remembered those cookies. I have tried all the "almost Ideal Bars". I hope it's okay to leave this comment here, I was enjoying these cookies in the 60s. Just found a Peanut Butter Crunch cookie by Little Debbie. Sporty Hairstyles. Oh my a cold glass of milk and and a few Ideals that is all I asklol. and Cheese Nips. Please please PLEASE bring them back! I have wanted these cookies for decades. Nothing will ever compare to Ideal Cookies! I used to look forward to our Sunday visits to my grandparents. Keebler created a weak version. The peanut butter part of the Ideals was slightly salty, and that is what made it so good. It just as well that they don't bring back because I think I would overdose on them or balloon to 400 lbs! I certainly DON'T, and my not buying cookies shows it!!!! I don't believe Nabisco would ship them during the summer months, at least here in New England. These were definitely the best cookies. //-->, Loading images, if this message doesn't go away you may need to enable javascript in order to see pictures. I still check the cookie isle at the grocery store hoping to see these again. Was there a special machine needed which cannot get parts anymore? My brother Tate and I have been searching for them for years and I was not aware that they were discontinued. Little Debbie makes something similar, but we need the real ideal back!! He was going on about what happened to "his" peanut butter bars. I also contacted Kraft and received the same message as Dan in April 2009. Ideal Chocolate Peanut Bars -- oh man do I miss those. I'm with you guys; Scott, Jim, Jan, et,al My most treasured memories of the seventies include that cookie/bar. It was discontinued after seven years, but we would love to have just one more of these tasty treats. Hey NABISCO ITS TIME!!! They were absolutely the best! Then, I'd eat the ends of each bar first. The folks at Nabisco must just be a bunch of big, dumb, stupidheads to not want to bring them back. This was a big deal for him since he never packed his own lunch. Perhaps if we all email Nabisco. I could sit and eat a whole box when I was a kid. I loved these cookies. I loved IDEAL bars!! Pretty close! In 1882, the entrepreneur Jacob Loose bought a biscuit and candy company that would eventually be known as Sunshine Biscuits (after the companys baking plant designs) and, in 1908, launched the biscuit sandwich known as Hydrox. "Ideal Bars" were the BEST!!! OK, so what WAS it about the Ideal bars? Ideal cookies were my favorite, too. Discontinued Products :: Nabisco :: Discontinued Nabisco Products. We'd save our allowance to buy them and they didn't last more than a half hour once we got them home. I really love these cookies also! They were the best cookies ever! Easily the best chocolate-covered cookie ever. I sooo love these cookies!! They've become extinct. Keebler makes a Pretzel bite that is as close as it gets, but still not Ideal!!!!!! Nabisco, You MUST bring these Back. I LOVED THEM and MISS THEM. The closest thing I found to these are the little Debbie peanut Butter bars that are very simular in shape. These were my favorite cookies as a child and I also kept them in the fridge!! Thanks. I always went with my mom to the A & P and I'd beg her to get them every time. I loved these Ideal Peanut Butter Bars tooooo much! I remember, my step-dad bringing fresh cookies out to us when we would pick him up. Well do you know I went right back up to that shelf and proceded to eat the rest of them. IT IS A SHAME THAT NABISCO WILL NOT MAKE THE COOKIES AND SELL THEM ONLINEHINT HINT NABISCO. If you don't believe me, read this: http://www.inthe70s.com/food/idealcookies0.shtml When are you going to wise up and bring back the best cookie you ever made? I will call Nabisco in the morning. 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". On the way home, I ate just as many as where missing and put them back on the shelf. 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. If you can believe it (and it's true) I actually went through shock treatment using Ideal bars as a food I should not eat (a loose weight gimmick in the 70's which is still used for smoking). Once I tried to carefully dig out the peanut butter then eat the cookie. I miss you Ideal cookies. NABISCO, WHY DID YOU STOP MAKING THEM???!!! We ate alot of Ideal cookies back in the day. My kids love peanut butter and chocolate, I know they would devour these! 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 can still taste them. I cant believe what i have found. We all should go to the keebler web site and leave our coments there also. I agree, Ideal Bars were the BEST EVER! I loved those cookies. If products don't seem to be popular with our consumers, and demand starts to drop, a decision is made to discontinue the item. PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE! It will be worth it. I thought they were originally produced by a smaller company than Nabisco, but could be mistaken. If you are determined to continue to refuse to bring these superior products back into production, then at least make the recipes for them available to the people who love them and grew up on them, people like me. They sent some coupons to me in the mail and stated they would report my request. I agree, bring them back. I don't buy cookies or pudding any more, but I would buy Ideal Bars and Spoon Candyso would many baby boomers. They are the closest "cookie" I've ever found to compare to an Ideal cookiethese pretzels are to die for!!! I just got home from the store. Every once in a while my brother & I will talk about them. Here's a look back - see how many you remember! This is a dark time in cookie history, one Hydrox partisan, Gary Nadeau, wrote, according to the Wall Street Journal. Gastro Obscura covers the worlds most wondrous food and drink. Regular stores, specialty stores. Our family loved these cookies..I still look for them when I shop.I hope Nabisco brings them back. That has never made sense to me! Seems Nabisco has no choice but to bring them back. i would love to have one right now. I thought I was the only person who could remember these cookies! Ideal Sandwich Cookies were among the "Best of Nabisco"! I did NOT have to share them. I'm beginning to wonder if these were laced with cocaine! My friends and I have been trying to figure out what it was called! I have longed for the Ideal cookie since I got married! 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! Nothing compares. This was and still would be my favorite cookie. When I first got married I would buy them from the grocery store (back in 1982) and my husband and I would tag team these cookies until there was an empty package left in the cabinet. 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! I kept thinking that it reminded me of something, then finally I remembered these cookies. Oh so very good. I loved those cookies. Nabisco would make a boatload of money putting these back out there on the market. The best cookie in the world ! 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. they really left an impression on me. It just so happened to be a day when Dad took an Ideal bar headcount. It is such a good memory of my grandma. 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. I cannot believe that I found this site. There is a Facebook page called Bring Back The Ideal Bar! They were perfectly balanced, the right size and flavor. We called him the "cookie monster" I care for my Mom who is 82. The cookie took a long time to eat, but it didn't last a long time at the grocery store. Please bring them back!!!! Well it was about 9 AM and I knew I was busted but Mom wasn't due home till much later in the afternoon. Hi, it;s me again. Without a doubt we would find them. Dave in Texas - December 11, 2007 - Report this comment Nabisco kept the other fruit-flavored Newtons (raspberry, strawberry). Please, Nabisco, bring these back. I was sitting in bed and the name just came back to me so I Googled "Ideal"! Please, Please, meet public demand and produce them again. 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. It appears we're not alone! I used to scour grocery store shelves for packages and buy them out. Please, Nabisco, Please! I moved from Cali to Texas in 1980, Texas didn't have anybummer. Little Debbie makes a larger bar that are okay, but not from the same pure chocolate or peanut butter. Not like any other cookie . Finally I googled and found this site. Not sure if he'd appreciate me telling the world, but he used to bite each end off and then dip the cookie in milk, suck milk through the cookie and then eat the cookie when it became soft. Where can you find these cookies ? Please, oh please, bring them back. I would love to have them back. 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. I'm going to the web site to put in a request. I found this today searching for clues on Nabisco Tidbits (also sadly no longer made) and found ths link and also found Chocolate Snaps - another old Nabisco snack no longer produced. Why did they discontinue the cookies!! It was the best store bought. I had forgotten about these!! They were the best. Please bring them back Nabisco!!! If a petition would work, let's get one going! I never got over losing the Ideal Bars. Now that I know there are others out there, I will call them again. Oreo, which the company . He had to do all the hard work of reformulating the snack, but once he had figured that out, it was off to the races. I do think it is wise for new management to revisit that decision againlet's hope. I try every new peanut butter cookie I see, but none quite compare to Ideals. You know that maybe they hadn't really existed. And for those of you who say, Get over it, its only a cookie, you have not lived until you have tasted a Hydrox.. What a great bday present that would be - a package of Ideal Bars!!!! I love the peanut butter filled pretzels at Trader Joe's, so I may just have to try it. soooooooo are they coming back, i'm still needing them!!!!!! Very upset when it was discontinued. Board members cower before the notion of diminished profits and will never stand for the reintroduction of a product, no matter how beloved, if that product cannot yield profits alternatively higher than some other. i thought my husband and i were the only ones that missed these cookins, boy was i wrong. would be really neat if they reintroduced the Ideal Bars and one would hope the flavor would be the same if so? He could not believe the Ideal bar interrogation. Please come back. I have never tried them. !I've never had a cookie I've enjoyed as much. Nothing on the market today even compares. I enjoyed reading everyone's comments - these cookies were the BEST and I can still remember their taste. I was broke and Mom was gonna know I wasn't sick. They are both treasured cookies. I miss them. They were awesome. They were the best. Offer subject to change without notice. Yep, I was just thinking of the yummy cookies. I hope that they bring these delicious cookies back to the grocery store shelves or sell the recipe to someone else. Seriously. I so miss the original Ideal Peanut Butter Bar Cookies. Can't believe they aren't made any more. 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 cannot believe the number of people who remember these cookies! They used to not be in the stores during the summer months but come fall they would be back on the shelves in Texas and I LOVED them! How's that for wishful thinking? my mother and I would share IDEAL cookies and talk. Come on you guys bring them back. Whatever they did to make this cookie, it was the BOMB!!! Well apparently my husband wasn't kidding. The real reason they stopped making these cookies is because they used "real" chocolate and it became very expensive over time. There never will be another cookie like it. Despite their undeniable childlike aesthetic, though, even grown-ups could get behind crunching on a handful of these mini-cookies even though they pretty much lack any nutritional . Bring Back Ideal Cookies on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bring-Back-The-Nabisco-Ideal-Cookie-Bars/256146701090663. They only came out in the cooler months. As I remember they were not sold in the summer. Not bad, but not the same. I've been looking for them for years-I was thinking maybe I just didn't remember the name and that's why I couldn't find them. Let us unite and show the company. Nabisco we NEED these cookies! Ideal bars were the best cookies ever made! 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. If I were the head of NABISCO, or your parent company, KRAFT, this would ALREADY HAVE BEEN DONE years ago!!!!!! My brother DeNault asked me just a few years ago what were those cookies? Great to share a wonderful memory of my childhood. There will always be room in this world for more chocolate and peanut butter. Best cookie ever! I loved them, too! google_color_border = "E7F0EB"; Everytime we get together we talk about how we bit off both ends and used them as straws to drink milk. Bring them back, who cares what the price is. Nabisco Giggles cookies were introduced in the 1980s, and they were only sold for about a decade. They patiently look them up and laugh. All the comments on this page are only the tip of the iceberg. I agree with everybody on this page. PLEASE MAKE THEM AGAIN. I am so disappointed they have discontinued them. I am sending an email to Nabisco to lodge my question tonight. There are few things I wouldn't do for those cookies. I would reach into the long, rectangular box; the bars would be cold to the touch, yet even at first contact my chubby hands would leave tell-tale fingerprints on the cookies I touched. Maybe I will email Keebler and encourage them to check out this site - for sure there's a demand - so how 'bout they provide the supply - :). Anyone know of a recipe to make them at home? They were the best cookie ever. Four pages of comments from people all over wanting a certain item back from Nabisco. But I was really let down. )which got me thinking again about the best cookie ever, IDEAL! I am quite positive that they would fly off of the shelves as long as they have the same original taste, and are as close to the original product in every way as possible. You also need to bring back the Lemon Cooler and Cherry Cooler cookies! Finally, my father started counting them. Gonna have to visit the Kraft foods site and ask for them back. I think maybe Nabisco, but not real sure. I would love to see Nabisco bring them back for my family. Ok folks, you can duplicate the taste of these Ideal cookies. More like this. Please bring them back! These were a chocolate covered cookie shaped like a small candybar. It's a crime! Press gently with palm of hand to flatten slightly. Who wants to go to the store for cookies and basically have only one choice???? My sisters and I loved them and ordering GS Tagalongs reminds us every year that they've disappeared. I've thought about them for years and could not understand why they are no longer available, OMG!!!!!!!!!! Ritz Crackers are a great anytime snack, the perfect complement for quick meals, and a versatile base for tasty party appetizers. No luck, so we checked another, and another. Please NABISCO bring them back. I do not know why Nabisco do not hear the voices crying. Oh these were my favorite cookies. What I wouldn't do to just have one more!! That really sucks, Nabisco really had something there. Yesterday a friend gave me a homemade treat that reminded me a lot of Ideal Bars. PLEASE bring them back! Wonderful, great combo!! I am so happy to know that there are this many people that loved the IDEAL bars like me. I used to love Ideal Bars: there was a certain salty sweet inside "crunch", and the way the outside chocolate used to melt, so you had to eat it faster, especially in the summer! Maybe if everyone emails Nabisco, they'll bring our favorite cookie back. I have searched over the years to see if they were ever going to come back. I've been scouring store shelves since, but no sign of them or anything close. My husband and I lived in the mountains befor they had cable, so we would listen to the stereo and have Ideal cookies and Milk two or three times a week! Best cookie ever made!! These cookies popped into my head the other night, it's unfortunate that they are not made anymore. Oh PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE bring these cookies back. I asked the Vermont Country Store to get them going again, I have not seen them in their catalog yet. Such a wonderful cookie, I sure wish they would bring them back!! I also have food pages for the 80s and 90s. Over 70% of the cookie aisle from ALL cookie manufacturers is taken up by CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES!!!! No other cookie compares! We kept ours in the fridge in the summer so the chocolate wouldn't melt off!!! I thought I was the only one. Nabisco, please bring them back!!! But then I would probably gain 10 pounds! 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 haven't seen them for years! 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 also LOVED the cookies as a child. We have so many fancy specialty items available (specialty beers; wines; whiskeys; cheeses; music; tuna; ice cream (Ben & Jerry's); candy; etc.) These Cookies RoCkEd! Invite your friends to do the same. They will always pull a box out right before we were leaving. Please Nabisco bring them back . - Touche, old man! ITS NOT NOT FAIR!! You need more diversity than this to keep my business!!! Ooops, maybe the Yoohoos I stole from Uncle Charlie's sandwich shop was first?!?!?! Sometimes Mom hid them - they lasted about a day, cost a little more than most other cookies and were worth every dime. we both started laughing when we realized how much we both wanted them! google_ad_type = "text_image"; I still look at the grocery store shelves to see if they are there. WILL YOU PLEASE BRING THEM BACK IF EVEN FOR A SHORT TIME (possibly like the recent "Pepsi Throwback" offering Pepsi did with their original sugar recipe/formula), BUT THEY MUST BE ORIGINAL RECIPE - PLEEEEEESE???!!!!!!!!!!! Nabisco/YouTube. Funny that ideal cookies are one of the few things I recall from my early years. TD PGH. My Mother kept these IDEAL Peanut Butter Cookie Logs in the Bread Box part of our shelvesthey were maybe three inches long and sorta like a flatted log.dark rich chocolate, didn't taste cheap.and had an inner crispy peanut butter filling, with some moisture.something like a Clark Bar taste, only a bit more of a cookie. They are the closest to the Ideal as anyone every going to get unless nabisco starts to make them again. I am so excited to find so many other Ideal-a-holics! Winner will be selected at random on 04/01/2023. There was only one store in our little town that carried them. I still think about them. Ha!.NO REALLY. It has been years since I have had an Ideal cookie bar and I can still taste them. I CAN REMEMBER WHEN OCTOBER CAME AROUND WE STARTED LOOKING IN THE GROCERY FOR IDEAL COOKIES. It's great to hear from consumers who are looking for our products because it lets us know how much you enjoy them. Oh how I miss that Ideal cookie! A current Facebook thread on the topic is full of tales about quests for the item. !I wish Nabisco would bring them back!!!! Thank you all! 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. How I wish we could still buy them. She spread smooth peanut butter between two ritz crackers. I totally agree. Oh, what happened to them!? I'd bite a little hole into each end, then suck milk up into it like it was a straw. 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. Ideal Barks popped into my mind last week and I asked my husband to look for them at the store. To date the closest I've seen to this most stupendous but unavailable product is the peanut butter Twix. PLEASE BRING THEM BACK, NABISCO! I have tried to substitute the Little Debbies, but they are not a match. "Today just being fat-free is not enough," he said. If he were alive he'd want them back, too. It's always about the money.
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