E-mail your local news station with this link. PLEASE MAKE THEM AGAIN. My dad worked for Nabisco - when he'd go to the plant that made Ideal peanut butter bars and come back with a carton - we felt like we were in heaven. But then I would probably gain 10 pounds! Mondelez International, Nabisco's Chicago-based parent company, makes some of its snacks in Mexico, but it said in a news release that production from Fair Lawn and Atlanta, where it is closing. 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. My best friend in grade school used to get them every week, and she would share! They were the best ever, especially cold. Corporations have the rights of an individual but not the soul of one. I still have dreams about these cookiesonce came home for lunch from school and mom had gone to a meeting. I don't know what is stopping them. It was my favorite cookie as a child and I've never found one I liked better since. 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. The recipe I normally use as the closest approach to the original Brown Edge Wafer that Nabisco used to make is this one from Cookie Madness, based on a recipe from the potato flour packaging. My friend (RIP) and i would walk to the corner store (even in th snow) and buy them..great memories of growing up..i miss those cookies !! I will call Nabisco in the morning. I don't believe Nabisco would ship them during the summer months, at least here in New England. The loss of these cookies was devastating. "Ideal Bars" were the BEST!!! These fan-favorite s'mores crackers featured a chocolate, marshmallow-flavored filling sandwiched between its classic buttery crackers. I must say that I am rather in accord with the previous statement by Tom. 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 love these cookies. I sure do wish they would bring them back, even if it was just for a trial period. And please don't pretend that apple cinnamon spice Newton is the . Wow, I had no idea "THEY" were gone forever, I thought they were just lost. I have to do a thorough search in the cookie aisle a couple of times a year. I have found a cookie bar made by Little Debbie snacks, called peanut butter crunch bars. These are the best cookies bar noneI still haven't figured out why they stopped making these cookiesI live close to the nabisco plant (before they tore it down) and ask one person there why they quit making them and she could not answer me. These were and remain my all-time favorite cookie. I so miss the original Ideal Peanut Butter Bar Cookies. We're all demanding the cookie - where is the supply? Those packages sure did go fast! 1985 Nabisco Brands merges with R.J. Reynolds. 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.. Some things should never have been changed, and this was one of them! 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". She spread smooth peanut butter between two ritz crackers. You can find alot of copycat recipes for these cookies if you google "ideal nabisco cookie bars". I agree - best cookie ever! - Touche, old man! I can recall in the early 70's playing football with the neighbood kids in the fall and after working up a good hunger pain we would walk down the block to the local A&P store and buy a package of Ideal cookies and eat them all. More information. I LOVED these exact cookies too. BEST COOKIE EVER MADE!! That is one of the many great memories of my childhood. The tough part comes when we have to share the news that the product you're trying to find has been discontinued. all cookies sold all over the world), which was valued at $30.62 billion in 2018, has been projected to expand at a compounded actual growth rate of 5.3% . But while Oreo ascended to become something of a cultural touchstone, Hydrox retained its partisans, in part also because the slightly-more-bitter cookie was also kosher. Every once in a while my brother & I will talk about them. I just got home from the store. :(. But I have to askdid anyone else first peel the chocolate off with their teeth before launching into the cookie? Also check out the other =Food of the 70s?> pages. My mother bought the Ideal peanut butter bars for my father (I don't know why he was allowed to hog them). Why did they discontinue the cookies!! They look and taste exactly like the original "Ideal Bar". Bring Back Ideal Cookies on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/pages/Bring-Back-The-Nabisco-Ideal-Cookie-Bars/256146701090663. I am so disappointed they have discontinued them. 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. the time is ripe for bringing back some treasured tastes of the old days! You have to keep them refrigerated because the chocolate will melt. PLEASE bring them back!!! I still check the grocery store shelves - just on case. I still see these on the shelf but not the Ideal Bar. I think the last time I actually had one was around 1982 but almost every trip to the store I STILL look!!! If you want a good substitute, though remember that it's merely a substitute, try the Trader Joe's Chocolate-covered Peanut Butter Pretzels. Then about seven years ago I found Little Debbies Peanut Bars and a 30 year void in my life has been lifted. close but not exact. See answer (1) Best Answer Copy Nabisco says that when enough people request the cookies, they will bring them back. They have a section where you can contact them and request they bring back Ideals. The Oreo is a cookie that embraces contradictions, wrote architecture critic Paul Golderberger. 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. I can even smell them now, I was about 9 then and now I'm 46. They were better than the Oreo with peanut butter in the middle, and that is saying a lot because I love those Oreos. The fact my kids never had one is enough reasonwait, not it's not. 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. These were the best cookies ever. I hadn't been able to find those for years either, but found one today (hooray! Check out McKee Bakery to find Peanut Butter Crunch Bars. They were amazing! They were FAR BETTER than ANY peanut cookie and/or candy bar available today, INCLUDING the Nutter Butter cookies you make today. I keep looking and hoping they will bring them back I absolutely loved them PLEASE PLEASE BRING THEM BACK THEY ARE ALL TIME FAVORITE!!!!!!!!! What surprises me is they still make the Pinwheel which was the same line..even the same color package..kind of their higher end type cookie. 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. 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! an update: I just received a msg indicating that my note referenced above was not deliverable to "cis@nabisco.com". 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 actually wrote to the Vermont Country Store asking them to see if they could find them. A few years back when Nabisco told me that they were discontinued, I was crushed. My Father used to buy them and ration them to my brothers and I otherwise we would eat the whole package. evenings watching TV and eating a package of them with Daddy & cold white milk. Oh so very good. Sounds like this cookie has a "Cult" followingha! I was broke and Mom was gonna know I wasn't sick. 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! 1981 Nabisco merges with Standard Brands. We lived in Florida and they tended to melt otherwise. Nabiso failed when they discontinued this winner. The most popular cookie ever growing up as a kid. We used to buy those cookies and count them out so that everyone got an equal number. Dave in Texas - December 11, 2007 - Report this comment COME BACK FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 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. Buy the Grandma's peanut butter sandwich creme cookies or Nutter Butter, but Grandmas is better to get the taste. SHAME ON YOU NABISCO. Glad to find this comment page and know we are not nuts. 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. She would check out with a half full package. Nabisco cannot continue implying that there is not enough demand for the Ideal cookie. 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? Finally, I accepted that I'll never see them again, but I still reflexively look in the cookie aisle when I'm in the grocery store. More and a few times we paid for an empty pack. I am happy to have finally found the name of my absolutely favorite cookie of my life!! My Mom too kept these hidden as much as possible because we would devour them. 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 thought of these cookies so many times over the years. Well it wasn't long afterwards they disappeared altogether. I would sign a petition to bring them back in a minute. I enjoyed reading everyone's comments - these cookies were the BEST and I can still remember their taste. I do not know why Nabisco do not hear the voices crying. Us kids would rip the package open and eat every single one; I'm sure my Mother got tired of us finding her hiding places in the kitchen. I think I made a request for Vermont Country Store to find them but never heard anything. They were the Cadillac of commercial cookies. Reminds me of my mom, too. They were much butter than the dry poptarts we are forced to have as replacements today. On the way home, I ate just as many as where missing and put them back on the shelf. Im 49 and that was the best cookie ever made lets all call Nabisco i would buy the recipe if they'd sell it to me damn i loved them cookies. These were my husband's favorite & what an awesome Christmas surprise that would be!!! Through the years I told so many people that my ALL TIME FAVORITE STORE BOUGHT COOKIE was Nabisco's Ideal cookies. Why single out the admirable apple variety for demolition? How can those gawdawful Nilla wafers survive all these years while the ultimate cookie -- the Ideal Bar -- is retired? I would love to be able to let my children and grandchildren experience such a Treat! I try every new peanut butter cookie I see, but none quite compare to Ideals. Remember biting into them and then dunking them in milk in such a way that milk would fill then void. I would love to see these cookies back in the grocery store, or even available through online ordering. I thought this was the absolute best snack until I got the bright idea of doing the same thing with coffeemelting dark chocolate and soft peanut butter filling - I was in heaven! The best cookies ever! I wish they would bring them back. I've contacted Nabisco. They were kept in the little cupboard between the fridge and stove. Wonderful cookies the kids and I loved them then they disappeared! 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. Not only does it cue back to Hydrox, but its a fun, whimsical name that really works with the Keebler imagery. Keebler marketing director for cookies Carolyn Burns explained to Fortune in 1999. Wouldn't you think Nabisco would want make some bucks and satisfy the public by bringing this cookie back to market? Try the frozen treat that inspired Arrested Development's famous banana stand. I don't ever remember having them but it sounds like they were very tasty. 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. please bring back this tasty, tasty treat. I have searched over the years to see if they were ever going to come back. well I finally found out the name of these cookies that my grandmother always bought for me in the late 60s and 70s. We talk about it often and it still makes us laugh. Please NABISCO bring them back. Ideal Bars were my favorites too (along with peanut butter Spoon Candy, also by Kraft/Nabisco)! The Ideal bar was more of a candy and Reeses sticks are more of a cookie. Just the population from the 70's who misses this cookie so much would constitute enough people to support reintroducing these! I can still taste them. Too bad Nabisco/Mondel. They were so wonderful!! I can still remember that taste. Pleeeeease bring them back! When mom would buy them at the grocer's she had to hide them!!! WOW! It just hit me like a ton of bricks. Waiting to see how it reacts with milk compared to what I remember. i can recall Sat. Pleeeeeeaaaaasssse, bring these cookies back. No other cookie compares! Nabisco has been making Teddy Grahams since 1988, according to The Retro Network.Almost immediately after debuting, the sweet treats became staples in kids' lunch boxes and a favorite after-school snack. Even though they were a little pricey compared to other cookies my mom always bought them because she knew how much I loved them. They also said if enough people contact them,. I found this board in 2011. Ideal chocolate Peanut Bars were the best cookie product ever produced. I still have the scar and it reminds me of these wonderful cookies everyday. Golderberger had some thoughts on the Hydrox, too. They were definitely the BEST cookies ever! Please bring them back, Nabisco! I am your biggest fan. Nabisco, come on, look at all the sales here. 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.