The Rise, Fall, and Return of Hydrox Cookies, the Proto-Oreo. "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. OMG !!! 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. I miss them too. It was the best store bought. After dinner, I couldn't eat much, but I even got to share some more Ideal cookies with my Mom and this is where my life of food-crime began. Yesterday a friend gave me a homemade treat that reminded me a lot of Ideal Bars. They were great to have on hand whenever company came over. They can have the goldI just want to enjoy these cookies again. I would pay $6-$10 per package if these were back on the shelf!!!! Like most American brands. I'll definately sign it! Nothing compares. 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. 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". I also searched for them in the past. Ideal Barks popped into my mind last week and I asked my husband to look for them at the store. There's one candy bar, Peanut Butter Twix, that kind of reminds me of the essence of Ideal, but still not the real thing. I contacted them and received a very narrow minded canned response that they don't bring back discontinued products. I would love to have them again. !I'm 7 years old and I NEED them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nabisco cannot continue implying that there is not enough demand for the Ideal cookie. If a petition is started., I will sign. 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. The critical part was having enough peanut butter vs. the cookie and coconut part. No other cookie compares! Please we need to unite and get Nabisco to bring the Ideal bar cookie back. I kind of make a substitute with Ritz crackers, peanut butter and melted chocolate chips. One of my sisters used to buy them and lock them up un her room. I aqree that with all the boring cookies out there and the market for gourmet cookies Nabisco couldn't find a way to market them or sell the recipie to a gourmet cookie company who could market them. I concur with every favorable sentiment expressed about these cookies and if someone from Nabisco were to read all of these comments and if a lightbulb were to go on upstairs, they might see the dollar signs written on the wall. What Are Some of the Cookies Discontinued by Nabisco? - Reference.com in the 70s, Food of the Seventies, Ideal Cookies I cannot believe the number of people who remember these cookies! He's asked me to search a few novelty shops (i.e., Cracker Barrell etc.) My favorite cookie ever! It didn't stop me - and I would love an Ideal bar right now. The real chocolate coating made them a seasonal cookie. Four pages of comments from people all over wanting a certain item back from Nabisco. Nabisco kept the other fruit-flavored Newtons (raspberry, strawberry). Thanks a bunch, Nabisco. They get all this old stuff that is hard to find, unfortunately I never heard anything from them. They patiently look them up and laugh. They were wonderful. I like having more choices than I get now. I'll bet Elvis did too! 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. Both Hydrox cookies and Oreos sport elaborate designs, creme centers, and a long history. The post accurately reports that Nabisco parent company Mondelz International is closing two U.S. cookie plants; however, it inaccurately claims jobs will be shipped to Mexico and the decision . I thought that maybe my memory was better than the cookie really was but evidently my memory served me well!!! Someone else posted a comment mentioning how they thought that they must not be going crazy, they really did exist. If a petition would work, let's get one going! 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 . - Bring them back, you knuckle-heads! If they're not going to sell them any more can't they at least share the recipe??!!!! The most popular cookie ever growing up as a kid. I miss them!! I am glad to see I am not the only Ideal obsessed kook out there. Need to get these back on the market! Bring back, Bring back, Bring back that cookie to us, to us (Sung to the tune of, Oh, you'll get it:) If Anyone has a Recipe, Please Publish It! Nabisco, please bring them back!!! I figured like some of the old candy from the 60s is still made regionall that these cookies would be too. I used to ask for them in my Easter basket and in my Christmas stocking! I grew up in the midwest and I beleive Karen is correct above that the Ideal was only available in the fall and winter. Good ta know WE ARE NOT ALONE! Offer subject to change without notice. Dip cookies in the melted dark chocolate and let cool in the freezer. I can pass up any other store bought cookie but not these. That is one of the many great memories of my childhood. They were best after being in the fridge. Check out McKee Bakery to find Peanut Butter Crunch Bars. SHAME ON YOU NABISCO. Dad always got a pack when we all went to the grocery as a familywe'd open the pack while shopping and they were gone before we hit the register! My mother would stop me though. The Streett Family. On the way home, I ate just as many as where missing and put them back on the shelf. 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. Would happily pay more for ideal bars than for any other cookie. Let me know! Bring them back. Followed by Penguin cookies! I bought some Pinwheels the other day and the real chocolate melting in my fingertip reminded me of IDEALS. Absolutly loved 'em and as kids growing up in the 70's fought over them. and spent my little savings on another package. Ideal Bars were my favorites too (along with peanut butter Spoon Candy, also by Kraft/Nabisco)! With so many of us wanting them back has anyone sent Nabisco this link? Submit a story or info about Ideal Cookies, , Loading images, if this message doesn't go away you may need to enable javascript in order to see pictures. Unfortunately the quality from Nabisco was not consistent. Ha!.NO REALLY. It wasn't my fault, I bought them all the time. NOTHING COMPARES, not even close.Ideal Bars were easily the greatest cookie ever mass produced,SORRY OREO, but its true. We would stock up on them when we knew snowstorms were approaching. They were the best. Did you lose the recipe? Nothing else compares. Who wants to go to the store for cookies and basically have only one choice???? It makes no sense!! Sometime after 1976 I asked a Nabisco rep delivering in my local grocery store, where were they? LET'S GET MOVING ON THIS! Nabisco Brands History and Timeline - ThoughtCo I called Nabsico years ago to ask them to bring them back but no luck. I talk about them and people have no idea what I am talking about. I actually wrote to the Vermont Country Store asking them to see if they could find them. Please bring them back Nabisco!!! These cookies were literally like crack. There are none like them. I am so glad I found this link because it makes me feel connected with all the other IDEAL COOKIE LOVERS. Funny thing, as it was, the woman I spoke with said that those were her favorite cookies also. You kept the box for Honey Maid Graham Crackers the same size, but significantly shrank the size of the crackers inside it. Nadeau was probably pleased, when in 2015, Hydrox made a comeback. Please show me where to sign up. We ate alot of Ideal cookies back in the day. Long story short, it was a weird name for a cookie. Then, I'd eat the ends of each bar first. I have tried to find these cookies and can not find them any where. I was hoping to put the Ideal Bar in my search engine and find them on line somewhere. How's that for wishful thinking? I looked up the # myself to be sure I was calling the right place. Devour is the word that someone used on this thread, and I have to say, I totally understand where you are coming from. 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 used to scour grocery store shelves for packages and buy them out. The woman I spoke with was quite nice as I recall but had no answer as to why they had discontinued the product. Thought I was the only one who felt this way about Ideal. Best cookie ever !! 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. Some of these gingerbread cookies take months to make. My sister and I were reminiscing and wishing they were still around. They also said if enough people contact them,. my Daddy just passed away recently @ 86 so these memories are running rampant through my mind. I have tried all the "almost Ideal Bars". 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. I hadn't thought about them in years until about a month ago I purchased a bag of the miniature reeses peanut butter cups that now come in milk and dark chocolate. 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???!!!!!!!!!!! I use to eat them all the time and was sad when they stopped making them. Yes, that has been over 30 yrs ago. My grandmother, mother, step-dad and other relatives use to work for Nabisco (anywhere from office, management & factory workers). I do all the shopping! Along with that - bring back pudding pops! The best cookie ever - my Ohio farm raised husband never tasted one. I never got over losing the Ideal Bars. Sign up and like! I miss the darn things too. And I guess there's ony one real answer. Mom finally had to restrict us to 1 each otherwise they never lasted more than an hour after getting them home. Let us unite and show the company. I remember, my step-dad bringing fresh cookies out to us when we would pick him up. Best cookie ever made.Dad hid them from me and I hid them from him. E-mail your local news station with this link. I don't understand why a company would stop making a product that is so popular. They were too good to have just one, just two - maybe four!!! I always went with my mom to the A & P and I'd beg her to get them every time. We kept ours in the fridge in the summer so the chocolate wouldn't melt off!!! Another brand recently introduced a snack that looks just like Ideal Cookies but not even close to the original taste. I thought I was the only one that searched grocery store shelves all over america for these treats!! I was telling some co-workers about Ideal cookies the other day and one of them googled the name. Nabisco Cookies. !my mom says she LOVED 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. We should start a petition drive to bring them back.. WHY did they ever stop making them WHY?????????? 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'd bite a little hole into each end, then suck milk up into it like it was a straw. I grew up devouring these cookies, they are the BEST ever Nabisco made. 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I loved them and there is nothing even close to their goodness!!!