They're the treats you probably always wanted your mom to buy -- old-school cookies, including both classics and long-forgotten brands. I have fond memories of getting these and grandmas house! Was there some ingredient used which is now illegal? I never even had a Reese's peanut butter cup until I was out of high school because of these bars. I always went with my mom to the A & P and I'd beg her to get them every time. If a petition is started., I will sign. Whoever bought it or felt the need to make a change . 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. Taste most like the original Ideal than anything I've tried. I thought about these cookies last night and made a note to Google them to see if they're still made. They were so good. THEY WERE THE BEST. There was just one problem. NABISCO..PLEASE BRING THE IDEAL COOKIES BACK!!!! You can find alot of copycat recipes for these cookies if you google "ideal nabisco cookie bars". Really? These were and remain my all-time favorite cookie. Ideal bars are by far the best cookie of my childhood. I think of these cookies often. They were hands down THE BEST cookies EVER made!!!! I am so disappointed they have discontinued them. Apparently they were well loved and a very popular cookie. 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. I think the last time I actually had one was around 1982 but almost every trip to the store I STILL look!!! While no where as good as the origional Ideal Bars, they are worth it, for a stared population of Ideal cookie fanatics !! You'd make a bundle on themhealth-kick or not, people loved theseand you don't break what's not broken. They were better than the Oreo with peanut butter in the middle, and that is saying a lot because I love those Oreos. I miss those doggone ideal bars!!!! Again, thanks for contacting us, and I hope you'll continue to enjoy our products. OK Nabisco, you have had your fun - BRING THE COOKING BACK!!!! The best cookie ever - my Ohio farm raised husband never tasted one. But no kidding -Nothing can substitute for Ideals. They used to be on the shelf next to the pinwheels, Why Nabisco still makes pinwheels and not ideal bars us beyond me. Anyone know the name of the shortbread or sugar cookie with a hersey-kiss type chocolate drop on top? Nabisco, if these wonderful cookies are too expensive to make and sell in a package of cookies, how about packaging them as candy bars? Please bring Ideal cookies back. Family-run for more than a century, this pizzeria makes a unique mustard pie. Stay tuned for Chapter Two: The First Bite. They have a section where you can contact them and request they bring back Ideals. Missed by everyone in my family and we would give almost anything to have a taste of those wonderful treats. I, TOO, LOVED Ideal Bars growing up and into adulthood. No other cookie compares! Come on Nabisco make my day!!!! I was telling my children and my husband about it. We ate alot of Ideal cookies back in the day. I've been to a large number of websites and forums where these are mentioned the most. My sister used to buy them and hide them under her bed and i would steal them. More like this. Here is the Nabisco email for comments. They were much butter than the dry poptarts we are forced to have as replacements today. Sporty Hairstyles. Nothing taste as good as the ideal cookie. I hope someone takes the challenge on! 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Please bring it back, Oh How I'd love to have that cookie again -- please bring it back. Little Debbie makes something similar, but we need the real ideal back!! Nabisco the market for them is ready and waiting!!!! I can't help but wonder if Hershey paid Nabisco to discontinue Ideal 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. I would love to see Nabisco bring them back for my family. Is it that difficult for them to reintroduce an item that was truly loved and enjoyed? Wonderful, great combo!! To date the closest I've seen to this most stupendous but unavailable product is the peanut butter Twix. We need to contact Nabisco a.s.a.p. Ideal is a legend in its own time. The best cookies ever! I think the last Ideal Bar I bought was in the early 90's in California. I couldn't believe how many comments about Ideal cookies. The problem, of course, was probably the name. 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. 1971 Nabisco becomes the corporate name. I kept thinking that it reminded me of something, then finally I remembered these cookies. Last time I had these was 4/17/80, my birthday, and I'm still dreaming about them 30 years later bring em back! Ideal coolies will never be forgotten by those who were fortunate enough to have experience a different kind of taste of cookie. We only had them during the winter, I don't think they could hold up to the Louisiana summer heat, they melted so easily. "Once Upon A Time" I was told that Nabisco discontinued production of these cookies because of the heat factor in shipping (chocolate melting, etc.) I wish Nabisco would either start making them again or provide a recipe for us to make them. I was thinking of a nice surprise that I could get my two sisters who will soon be turning 50. They patiently look them up and laugh. Bring them back. 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!!! Ideal cookie bars were the BEST. But I can't make that happen by myself. I have been watching for those Ideal Bars for years and did not realize that Nabisco had quit making them. But when you see fancy cookies today packaged as 8 cookies for $4.00, there must be a market for the hi-price cookies! Have missed my favorite cookie for years. I contacted them and received a very narrow minded canned response that they don't bring back discontinued products. Very similar to my memory of the Ideal Peanut Butter bars but not made as well. I must say that I am rather in accord with the previous statement by Tom. I am glad to see I am not the only Ideal obsessed kook out there. Will have to try another e-mail address. I look for them everytime I go to the store. Nothing else compares. I can still see the package,,,,, it was dark brown with a flat orange trim.they were THE BOMB. Anyways, not as good as Ideal, I'd like to see them come back. PLEASE bring them back! which are offered at higher prices. This article was updated with minor edits on September 8, 2020. 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. I would buy them by the case. I am not the only one to miss them SO much:) I would buy these religiously if they were made again. However, Reeses sticks are too sweet and less rich than the Idea Bar. At family gatherings we still all long for these fabulous cookies. We depend on ad revenue to craft and curate stories about the worlds hidden wonders. Great to see all the Love. Nabisco, please bring them back!!! Made the call. If Nabisco won't do it I wish they would sell the recipe to Keebler, they have some really good products. These were my favorite treat as a child! Please bring them back. Like Atlas Obscura and get our latest and greatest stories in your Facebook feed. Nabisco-PLEASE make them again. Nabisco, if you do bring them back, KEEP THE RECIPE EXACTLY THE SAME!!! I'm with you guys; Scott, Jim, Jan, et,al My most treasured memories of the seventies include that cookie/bar. Nothing compares. My grandmother, mother, step-dad and other relatives use to work for Nabisco (anywhere from office, management & factory workers). I was broke and Mom was gonna know I wasn't sick. I had no idea when I typed the name ideal peanut butter bars into google how many like minded souls there would be!! Great site, was looking for Caravelle candy bars and then searched for the Ideal bars. google_ad_width = 120; My favorite cookie ever! Maybe we need to start our own petition to Nabisco! I can't go in to the cookie isle without looking for them. They're EVEN BETTER than OREO cookies. Always will be!! Really, we would all buy them if they would just bring them back, I would love one right now!!! I miss Lemon Coolers and My Dad Harold Hourihan more! I believe that is why they discontinued them. They can have the goldI just want to enjoy these cookies again. If they're not going to sell them any more can't they at least share the recipe??!!!! It was the first thing we would go for when we got to the store. The Oreo is a cookie that embraces contradictions, wrote architecture critic Paul Golderberger. We usually had to have two packages: one for Dad, and one for the kids. They really should bring them back!!!!! I also contacted Kraft and received the same message as Dan in April 2009. Check out McKee Bakery to find Peanut Butter Crunch Bars. I'D Sign the petition in an instant! 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. BRING THEM BACK. The distinctive design was thought to have been created by William A. Turnier but Nabisco . Something NEEDS to be done here!!! I Goggled this cookie to see if anyone else remembered this sweet treat and boy was I surprised!! I actually wrote to the Vermont Country Store asking them to see if they could find them. But then I would probably gain 10 pounds! I have never stopped thinking about those cookies. Little Debbies just don't work for me. What happened to capitalism? Thank you all! Nabisco needs to GET RID of all the OREO and Chips Ahoy varieties, and bring REAL diversity back to the cookie aisle.The text of the email is as follows: I know of 4 cookies you need to bring BACK!!!!! Get the word out and maybe, just maybe we'll see the BEST cookie resurrected. I think the best advise we read was to write to Nabisco. TOO. Finaly found on the web, after years of idly searching. Loved Ideals-The Very Best! We would stock up on them when we knew snowstorms were approaching. I was looking up pinwheel cookies and came across Ideal. I really love these cookies also! Wish me luck. She had the idea of looking for them online. What I can't understand is why Nabisco a consumer company won't even comment. After a little research I have discovered that Nabisco was bought by Kraft back in 2000. Since were so loved there is no doubt they would be a best seller. More like this. They are the closest "cookie" I've ever found to compare to an Ideal cookiethese pretzels are to die for!!! IDEAL COOKIES ARE A FAR CRY BETTER THAN ANY OTHER THEY MAKE. Growing up in the 60's, my mom would splurge every now and then and buy them--what a treat. The boycott was prompted by the Mondelez company's decision to close its American factories and move production to Mexico. 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. And if Nabisco is too stupid to bring back the bars, then head to Trader Joe's! Same with everything else, you love something, they quit making it. I just got finished telling my kids about the best cookie I ever had-the Ideal bar- and wondered what happened to them. Please bring this cookie back so my children can enjoy them too!!! I always thought they should have packaged them as candy bars since that's basically what they were. They, too, were far superior to ANYTHING available today!!!! Mondelez International, the Illinois-based parent company that makes Oreo cookies, announced in July that it plans to invest $130 million in four state-of-the-art manufacturing lines that will. I was about 10 when they came into my life. Please Nabisco, make a good business decision and bring these back. Individually wrapped sleeves to lock in freshness. Please bring them back! I have tried to find an alternative over the years, to no avail. We lived in Florida and they tended to melt otherwise. I agree - best cookie ever! - Bring them back, you knuckle-heads! And that was the keythe slightly salty peanut butter. What could be better. The only thing that I have found that even comes close is a Peanut Butter Twix. How's that for wishful thinking? Giggles were shortbread cookies filled with fudge and vanilla cream, like an Oreo. For the longest time, I refused to believe that Ideal bars (we always called them bars) weren't being made anymore. I also have food pages for the 80s and 90s. The peanut butter was kind of salty and my brother and sister and I could eat a whole pack of them. The chocolate cookies with carmel and peanuts I think was called Haystacks. I was in elementary school and my Mother used to buy these cookies for herself and give us kids two and hide the rest. Carl J. Lomen used legal loopholes and Santa Claus to build his meat business. Every year for Christmas my parents would buy me a lot of them for my stocking. We talk about it often and it still makes us laugh. This TEMPLE OF ANSWER that i met on this was my God of savior please contact them now if you are having same problem email is [email protected] phone number is +2348155425481. Wow, I went online looking for Count Chocula and I found this great support group for fans of the greatest cookie ever! YUMmmm!! I can't stop checking. So what? 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. There's one candy bar, Peanut Butter Twix, that kind of reminds me of the essence of Ideal, but still not the real thing.