Why is it that when you find something that really works for you, it's discontinued. I copied the link above someone posted and left the same story to nabiso, if everone does this, we might have a chance!! I had always kept an eye out for these and time to time I would find them (and buy a few boxes!!! 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!!! Grew up in the Detroit area . Now that I have my own home I would love to have them back. If I were the head of NABISCO, or your parent company, KRAFT, this would ALREADY HAVE BEEN DONE years ago!!!!!! You would think with all these comments about the Ideal cookies Nabisco would want to satisfy their customers. Will have to try another e-mail address. She would always get furious as to why we were sneaking hers when we had our own. Oh my a cold glass of milk and and a few Ideals that is all I asklol. Anyway, I wish they would bring them back, That would make the perfect Mothers Day present:), I'm glad it wasn't my imaginationI have had dreams of those fantastic cookie bars! There were the BEST! "You have to have the right. I agree - best cookie ever! Adolphus Green is president. It has been years since I have had an Ideal cookie bar and I can still taste them. I would dearly love to give my dad a package of Ideal cookies. Another favorite of mine was TostettesI loved them because they were so moist and full of fruit and had a little sprinkle of sugar on topjust the right amount (cold or hot). Like everyone else I LOVED these cookies. And they completely disintegrate in your hand when you take a bite! Then later they came in a dark brown package (and seemed to have lost something then). That off colored orange package. We looked so forward to going to the store and getting a couple packs to share. I remember his yelling about the peanut butter bars, and I would feign ignorance. I would base my weekly calorie intake around these cookies! Best cookie ever made!! They are the best cookies ever made! 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. This cookie was by far the most delicious blend of flavors you could ever ask for. I would love to be able to let my children and grandchildren experience such a Treat! Thanks. Ok folks, you can duplicate the taste of these Ideal cookies. google_alternate_color = "E7F0EB"; to see if I can find these cookies. Really? Thats not to say that Hydrox didnt have natural advantages. Nothing will ever compare to Ideal Cookies! Easily the best chocolate-covered cookie ever. But they did not stay mad long after I offered them another cookie :). WOW! The Ideal bar was the best cookie they ever madeperiod. I think the last Ideal Bar I bought was in the early 90's in California. There are few things I wouldn't do for those cookies. 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!!!!! LEMON COOLERS! Yes, that has been over 30 yrs ago. There is nothing close to them. Oh yesHow I remember those cookies "Ideal Cookies" they were the best cookie I have every eatenI wish Nabisco would make them again. More and a few times we paid for an empty pack. They are close, but the pretzel tast overwhelms the peanut and chocolate to the point where it looses the "Ideal" taste. What happened to capitalism? My husband promised me a case of them if we ever saw them again - which we have not. Those fond memories and feeling like a kid again. Even now, so many years later,I have never found another cookie that I have enjoyed more. The closest thing I found to these are the little Debbie peanut Butter bars that are very simular in shape. 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! I think the chocolate was dark if I remember correctly. 2. I don't buy cookies or pudding any more, but I would buy Ideal Bars and Spoon Candyso would many baby boomers. I don't know why the hoopleheads at Nabisco won't make these incredibly popular bars anymore. Discontinuing them to develop a more profitable product may have made some punk executive a bonus but in doing so the Nabisco brand was greatly diminished. http://nabiscoworld.custhelp.com/app/contact. I used to hate that they came in such a small package, but that is the size package I would kill for now. I would pay almost anything to have these on the shelf again. I am so glad I'm not the only one who misses Ideal cookies. As a kid in the 60's, nothing was better than some Ideal Peanut Butter Logs and a glass of really cold milk. Wow, I thought I was the only one who remembered these great tasting cookies. They are amazing! Please bring back the best cookie everIdeal cookies!! So what? I would give up every store-bought cookie---sorry Pepperidge Milanos---for one Ideal Bar! ), I contacted the Nabisco Company sometime in the eighties to inquire about IDEAL cookies and was told that many people had also called with the same question. I still look for these cookies when I go in the grocery store hoping they will magically appear. Maybe they'll catch on. Missed by everyone in my family and we would give almost anything to have a taste of those wonderful treats. Please please PLEASE bring them back! Please bring them back, Nabisco! I was telling my children and my husband about it. There are some cookies called Nutter Butter, if you melt some semi-sweet chocolate chips and dip these cookies in the chocolate, it comes fairly close to the Ideal cookie. The chocolate peanut butter logs were a staple in my grandmother's cupboard. I LOVED these cookies. I have the fondest of memories eating these cookies. You'd make a bundle on themhealth-kick or not, people loved theseand you don't break what's not broken. http://www.mondelezinternational.com/ ( MondelezInternationaldotcom)has bought out the snack division of Nabisco. I often times tell my family about this cookie. I frequently speak of these cookies and how incredible they were. I still think about them. Whatever they did to make this cookie, it was the BOMB!!! He was going on about what happened to "his" peanut butter bars. I don't understand why a company would stop making a product that is so popular. 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. I look for IDEAL cookies every time I am at the grocery store hoping to see that Nabisco has reintroduced them. Now I found Little Debbies has a larger bar named Crunch that taste like the Ideal cookies. I moved to Texas in the early 70's and couldn't find them anywhere. Please, please, please bring them back!!! I am willing to attempt another contact with nabisco whatever will work. COME BACK FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Not exactly the same but pretty darn close. I would love for my grandchildren to experience the best taste I have EVER tasted in my lifetime! like everyone else, Ideal Cookies where the best ever! I'd BEG the president of Nabisco to re-introduce them, if it would do any good! Still crave them . I loved eating those cookies - Let's bring them back Nabisco! Bring them back to way up north in Maine!! Then about seven years ago I found Little Debbies Peanut Bars and a 30 year void in my life has been lifted. We usually had to have two packages: one for Dad, and one for the kids. Never in the summer. Please NABISCO bring them back. Wow, how I miss those peanut butter bars. these cookies were great and my mom favorites i wish they would make them again there is not many sweets she can each but i know she would it them again and give up other sweets please bring them back. Since 1912, the snack food company has created so many different variations of its beloved chocolate sandwich cookie, including holiday-themed and limited-edition flavors, mystery flavors, a version branded by streetwear label Supreme, and even glittery Oreos.Nabisco's willingness to reinvent the Oreo and keep fans interested with . i loved the ideal bars, tagalongs are good, also little debbie has a good one, peanut butter bars almost the exact of the ideal bar, i always wipe that one off the shelf, bring back the ideal bar nabisco. Pleeeeeeaaaaasssse, bring these cookies back. If you got a package that didn't have enough PB, they were almost tasteless. [ CNP00612 ] 100 Calorie Cheese Nips Crackers, 6 / Box; [ FVS00609 ] Ritz 100 Calorie Snack Mix, 6 / box; [ FVS00612 ] 100 Calorie Cheese Nips Crackers, 6 / Box. I am so glad I found this link because it makes me feel connected with all the other IDEAL COOKIE LOVERS. Nabisco Ginger Snaps Cookies - 16oz : Target Nutter Butter is an American sandwich cookie brand, first introduced in 1969 and currently owned by Nabisco, which is a subsidiary of Mondelez International. I know it sounds crazy but all of these comments made me feel better. They did make a brief return in 2022, but only as a giveaway. and spent my little savings on another package. I figured like some of the old candy from the 60s is still made regionall that these cookies would be too. 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. Thought I was the only one who felt this way about Ideal. Mom finally had to restrict us to 1 each otherwise they never lasted more than an hour after getting them home. Every weekday we compile our most wondrous stories and deliver them straight to you. Found these comments so wanted to put my two-cents in on this. Now I know I am not crazy, they really did exist. We used to buy those cookies and count them out so that everyone got an equal number. I'm emailing them as we speak. Maybe they can assist to get them back, They were the best cookies EVER MADE nd NOTHING compares. Little Debbie are close. I looked up the # myself to be sure I was calling the right place. were they to good for human cunsumption? I must say that I am rather in accord with the previous statement by Tom. I too remember these as a kid - we kept them in the fridgeI was thinking about them today which brought me to this page. 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. Like some of you my mom would have to hide them. These cookies were the source of numerous battles in my house. . Anyone ever track down the recipe from Nabisco? Mybe even the show unwrapped. Who wants to go to the store for cookies and basically have only one choice???? I googled Ideal cookies tonight and am absolutely STUNNED at how many people LOVED these cookies as much as me!!!!! And what about them not being big sellers? Little Debbie makes a larger bar that are okay, but not from the same pure chocolate or peanut butter. The biscuit containers and the china scoop to retrieve the biscuits, are prized along with: wood crates carrying the N.B.C./National Biscuit Company label, and early metal tins, store . It is to let Nabisco know how much we love and want them back onto the store shelves for us all to enjoy once again. Bring them back! Come on Nabisco make our day!! Finally I googled and found this site. Nabisco, if you do bring them back, KEEP THE RECIPE EXACTLY THE SAME!!! I remember the ideal bar as a kid and a quick snack when traveling across the nation or mom packing them in our lunch. After reading all your comments and listening to my husband, I want one NOW! You also need to bring back the Famous Cookie Assortment. they were my favs and can't believe they haven't been brought back yet is there a fb page for them yet??? Maybe we need to start our own petition to Nabisco! You would think in the year 2010 they could figure out some solution to the melting problem. 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. 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 wish they would bring them back. I think maybe Nabisco, but not real sure. 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. I am now 58 years old and have never found a cookie that comes close to the ideal peanut butter log. Nabisco the market for them is ready and waiting!!!! I still hunt for them from time to time. It makes no sense!! 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. These were the BEST cookies EVER!! I'm about 10 years younger than my siblings and they used to have us begging like dogs just to get the cookies. 13 Beloved Discontinued Cookies You'll Never See Again They were amazing! 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!! 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. What's the problem? At the end of their email form, they give a phone number. A lot of people would buy them. DON'T cheapen the ingredient deck! When I was a kid my mom sent them to me at sleep away camp since they were my favorite!! We just blogged the question to the Internet and are so surprised to find a support group. Just the population from the 70's who misses this cookie so much would constitute enough people to support reintroducing these! Unfortunately the quality from Nabisco was not consistent. He will be 48 on Monday and I have no doubt that if those cookies were still around, he would eat the entire package. I made my own sandwich and helped my self to an entire package of Ideals. The Ideal Bars by Nabisco was the best cookies that one could buy from the store. 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 would gladly pay $10-15.00 for a box. They are the closest "cookie" I've ever found to compare to an Ideal cookiethese pretzels are to die for!!! These were the best cookies ever and I would give my first born child to have one of these again. 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. Finaly found on the web, after years of idly searching. Lets try this. Seriously. I cannot believe that I found this site. The peanut butter was kind of salty and my brother and sister and I could eat a whole pack of them. Hands down the #1 cookie of all time. I thought I was the only one who did that - not anymore after reading these comments. NOTHING COMPARES, not even close.Ideal Bars were easily the greatest cookie ever mass produced,SORRY OREO, but its true. When mom would buy them at the grocer's she had to hide them!!! Still dream about these - anybody ever try to make them at home? Why were they ever taken off the market? 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. Why Nabisco why??? Buy the Grandma's peanut butter sandwich creme cookies or Nutter Butter, but Grandmas is better to get the taste. Little Debbie has Peanut Butter Crunch Bars that are very very close to the Ideal Bars. They were the Cadillac of commercial cookies. Nabisco also used to sell assortment packages that are no longer produced. Little Debbies just don't work for me. NOW!!!!!! Please, Please bring them back. My favorite cookie ever! Please show me where to sign up. We stopped at a store in Winston, Oregon and we found "Little Debbie's" version of the Ideal bar. I still see these on the shelf but not the Ideal Bar. I also would like to see them brought back. The folks at Nabisco must just be a bunch of big, dumb, stupidheads to not want to bring them back. Always will be!! I thought that maybe my memory was better than the cookie really was but evidently my memory served me well!!! ;o(. A current Facebook thread on the topic is full of tales about quests for the item. I thought they might only be a local New England product but see now it was nation wide. The absolute BEST cookie ever produced on this planet in my lifetime. BRING THEM BACK!!! read petition letter Dear Nabisco, I do not know why Nabisco do not hear the voices crying. Little Debbie just doesn't get it done. Well it was about 9 AM and I knew I was busted but Mom wasn't due home till much later in the afternoon. There are a few FAKE ones on the market but nothing like the real IDEAL cookies. Ideal bars are by far the best cookie of my childhood. Nabisco Ideal BarsBRING THEM BACK! | School memories, Childhood What I wouldn't do to just have one more!! When I revisted Cali they didn't have any as well. Nabisco, come on, look at all the sales here. I really think Nabisco (Kraft) needs to re-evaluate product selectionsand give the people what they want! I think of these cookies often. If Nabisco R & D folks actually took the time to read these comments, they just might realize they could make a product that would put the "Peanut Butter" cup in the trash forever. I remember them not being available in the summer months and assume this was because the chocolate would melt. I've contacted Nabisco. Please Nabisco give us an answer!!!! I'm with you guys; Scott, Jim, Jan, et,al My most treasured memories of the seventies include that cookie/bar. I would sign a petition to bring them back in a minute. It just hit me like a ton of bricks. How can those gawdawful Nilla wafers survive all these years while the ultimate cookie -- the Ideal Bar -- is retired? My mom had to hide them because I would sit and eat almost all of them in one sitting. Anyway, Glad to see I'm not alone. "Correction" I called this Cookie a candy bar in my rush..my apologies. "Today just being fat-free is not enough," he said. Oh how I miss that Ideal cookie! To this day 30 years later we agree there was not a better cookie ever after they stopped making them. This article was updated with minor edits on September 8, 2020. 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. Pretty rich. I grew up on them and have many memories of hiding them from my sister. This was and still would be my favorite cookie. They truly were the best cookies ever. Ideal Barks popped into my mind last week and I asked my husband to look for them at the store. Still to this day every time I am in the grocery store cookie isle I look for Ideal Bars. Loved Ideals-The Very Best! I just had a brainstorm on how to get close to that flavor again though! IT IS A SHAME THAT NABISCO WILL NOT MAKE THE COOKIES AND SELL THEM ONLINEHINT HINT NABISCO. I guess it was supposedly the heat that they stopped manufacturing these cookies. These were the best cookies ever! I have searched over the years to see if they were ever going to come back. Made the call. I thought I was the only person who could remember these cookies! The Streett Family. Bring them back! I, TOO, LOVED Ideal Bars growing up and into adulthood. These fan-favorite s'mores crackers featured a chocolate, marshmallow-flavored filling sandwiched between its classic buttery crackers. How do we get to it? Bring Back Old Recipe for SnackWell's Devil's Food Cookies If everyone on this list did, maybe it would help. Please bring them back! the little Debbie ones don't even come close .Please bring back the ideal. Im disappointed to learn that they no longer make these wonderful cookies. I have been searching for these damn cookies for decades hoping upon hope I could find them again. 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. They patiently look them up and laugh. Same with everything else, you love something, they quit making it. I call Nabisco every year and ask them when they are going to start making Ideal Cookie Bars again. I Mourn These Top 5 Discontinued Cookies - Houston Press I can't believe the post starts in 2007 and the last one was 4 days ago. The Untold Truth Of Nilla Wafers - Mashed.com 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. 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! It was the highlight of dessert. The distinctive design was thought to have been created by William A. Turnier but Nabisco . Please! They really should bring them back!!!!! I found that the peanut butter Twix is similar, but these are hard to find. 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! O. O U. U U U UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU UUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU. That really sucks, Nabisco really had something there. The best cookie in the world ! More like this. Hacked recipe available? Well it wasn't long afterwards they disappeared altogether. Give it a try or let someone else make them. 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.