Take 2 Ritz crackers, put peanut butter between them, dip in melted milk chocolate, place on a buttered cookie sheet - load up the sheet with them and refrigerate for about 5 minutes. Please contact them for bringing back Chocolate Ideal Peanut Bars!!! I really love these cookies also! Feel free to have friends and family make additional requests. . 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. My sister and I would walk to the corner grocery store at my grandmas. Go figure! Bring 'em back Nabisco it's time!!! Or give it to the Girl Scouys. Is it deliberate? This was and still would be my favorite cookie. Without a doubt we would find them. Best sweets I ever ate!!! Ellia Kassoff, a Jewish kid who grew up on the kosher cookies, had gained some knowledge on how to gain access to a trademark that was sitting unused, and as a result, he was able to pick up Hydrox for his own company, Leaf Brandsitself a dormant brand that Kassoff had revived. The only thing that I have found that even comes close is a Peanut Butter Twix. Youd be surprised how many companies are hoarding trademarks, Kassoff told The Consumerist in 2014. I still think about them. It was the first thing we would go for when we got to the store. Round cookies make easy snacks for kids and adults Baked cookies with a classic crispy texture for a satisfying crunchy snack Ideal for sweet snacks or desserts Specifications Contains: Soy, Wheat May Contain: Peanuts, Tree Nuts Filling: No Filling State of Readiness: Ready to Eat Package Quantity: 1 Bakery topping: Brown Sugar I stated there was only 1 cookie worth remembering and that was IDEAL cookies, It is true, there has never been a better cookie made than those Ideal bars and never will. I wrote Nabisco and sent the link to this site. At family gatherings we still all long for these fabulous cookies. 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! The package was orange and brown, but I guess it could have been clear revealing the chocolate. What Cookies Are No Longer Made by Nabisco? - Reference.com And for those of you who say, Get over it, its only a cookie, you have not lived until you have tasted a Hydrox.. It just hit me like a ton of bricks. google_ad_height = 600; I will buy them out!!! I would pay $6-$10 per package if these were back on the shelf!!!! 1985 Nabisco Brands merges with R.J. Reynolds. I'm from CT,and my Dad would buy them whenever they were available. Every Sunday my stepdad would bring them home from the Fort Mac Commissary and I'd try and eat the whole box that day. Ideal Barks popped into my mind last week and I asked my husband to look for them at the store. More information. I Mourn These Top 5 Discontinued Cookies - Houston Press I can still see the package,,,,, it was dark brown with a flat orange trim.they were THE BOMB. Unfortunately in todays society, the squeezy wheel gets the oil. The company was improving the cookies, making them more attractive to the modern health-conscious consumer. Nabisco, You MUST bring these Back. I looked forward to autumn when they would reappear at Thriftway supermarket. Every trip down the cookie isle, I scan every shelf looking for them. Keebler realized this was a problem and quickly attempted to rename the cookies Droxies, a sort of softening of the name to discourage people from thinking of chemicals. I'm with you guys; Scott, Jim, Jan, et,al My most treasured memories of the seventies include that cookie/bar. I miss them too. 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 . Individually wrapped sleeves to lock in freshness. My Father used to buy them and ration them to my brothers and I otherwise we would eat the whole package. Of course Mom would hide them from us and I could not wait until I grew up so I could buy them for myself. Please bring them back. Have missed my favorite cookie for years. They were the best. Also, consider licensing someone to make these cookies under your aegis. I miss them, I never knew what happened to them, and it's just like everything, something good and to perfection, and some (ok) engineer shut it downboo! 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!!! If we get enough attention it will spread like wildfire. I've asked people over the years but haven't found anyone else that remembers them. I was surprised to find out how many other people loved those cookies as much as I did. Just emailed NabiscoWe NEED to let the world know about the Ideal bar. When my parents bought the ideal bars, it was a big deal. Please, please bring them back! My favorite way to eat them was to first fill a double old-fashioned glass with ice-cold milk. Those packages sure did go fast! Always will be!! I hated to see that they discontinued them!!!!!!! google_color_bg = "E7F0EB"; I contacted them and received a very narrow minded canned response that they don't bring back discontinued products. Corporations have the rights of an individual but not the soul of one. If I were the head of NABISCO, or your parent company, KRAFT, this would ALREADY HAVE BEEN DONE years ago!!!!!! I grew up devouring these cookies, they are the BEST ever Nabisco made. I grew up on them as treats and have been looking for them for YEARS!!!!!!! I am going to keep trying and contacting them. Since Vintage and Retro (i.e. I had forgotten about them until the other day when I had a dark chocolate Reese cup. they we're the best cookie ever made!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1. These cookies were literally like crack. close but not exact. So many people would buy them just for the memories. I do not know why Nabisco do not hear the voices crying. Kim McMiller Associate Director, Consumer Relations. My husband promised me a case of them if we ever saw them again - which we have not. I was a good climber too. Best cookie ever! I kind of make a substitute with Ritz crackers, peanut butter and melted chocolate chips. I can personally buy them all and will . I always went with my mom to the A & P and I'd beg her to get them every time. 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. I never got over losing the Ideal Bars. I am thinking of starting a "petition" that would go to Nabisco we all NEED these Ideal bars back on the shelves of our local stores. What a great bday present that would be - a package of Ideal Bars!!!! LEMON COOLERS! Wow, I went online looking for Count Chocula and I found this great support group for fans of the greatest cookie ever! There is nothing that compares to the Ideal cookie which is why it had the perfect name. :) I love them. I would buy them in a second if they were around, and I have pretty much sworn off all sugar. 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. There obviously must have been a quiet, well financed deal made for Nabisco to "bow out" of the competition! The closest thing I found to these are the little Debbie peanut Butter bars that are very simular in shape. Maybe they stopped making them because they were too expensive to make. 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 frequently speak of these cookies and how incredible they were. Now that I know there are others out there, I will call them again. Maybe we need to start our own petition to 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! 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. Pretty close! I was a Nabisco Sales Rep for over 30 yrs retiring in 2002. the Ideal Peanut Butter bars were a fall and winter cookie as was the Choc Pinwheels. One glassful was good for 3-4 cookies. A few years back when Nabisco told me that they were discontinued, I was crushed. I had always kept an eye out for these and time to time I would find them (and buy a few boxes!!! We hid them in the frige and I can still taste the creamy, fresh peanut butter. He's not a peanut butter fan, so I don't think he really cares if Nabisco brings them back. That really sucks, Nabisco really had something there. Finally, my father started counting them. 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! To be blunt, they lie to the Trademark Office.. The best cookie of the 60s and 70s. Bring em back! I loved these cookies. I cannot believe that I found this site. My husband is addicted to these cookies.wanted to give them to him for Valentine's Day and thought perhaps, like the old candies (I was able to get through another distributer), that I could find someone who still made these. 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. My grandmother, mother, step-dad and other relatives use to work for Nabisco (anywhere from office, management & factory workers). These were the best cookies ever. I haven't seen them for years! Oreo was one of three cookies introduced by Nabisco on April 2, 1912, with the other twothe Mother Goose biscuit and the Veronese biscuitnow lost to history. and Cheese Nips. 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 . I was told way back in the 70's also that they quit making them during the warm months.. and then never started making them again one year. http://www.mondelezinternational.com/ ( MondelezInternationaldotcom)has bought out the snack division of Nabisco. My Dad started hiding them in the hall closet, but we still found them!!! My Mom too kept these hidden as much as possible because we would devour them. One of my sisters used to buy them and lock them up un her room. (Two words: Cheez-It.). Nabisco Cookies. But when you see fancy cookies today packaged as 8 cookies for $4.00, there must be a market for the hi-price cookies! Little Debbie makes a larger bar that are okay, but not from the same pure chocolate or peanut butter. Invite your friends to do the same. Nothing can compare , more like a candy bar . Lets band together!!! They were hands down THE BEST cookies EVER made!!!! DON'T cheapen the ingredient deck! Come on Nabisco, BRING THEM BACK!! "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. Anyways, not as good as Ideal, I'd like to see them come back. We would eat them all in one weekend!! Nothing compares to the original Ideal Cookie Bars. Gratitude to whomever started this stream so that I could possibly get this out of my system. Please bring them back! They were expensive in the 70;s and our family had tight money, but we got these. I think the last Ideal Bar I bought was in the early 90's in California. Nabisco could reintroduce these cookies with much fanfare and publicity and then watch their profits soar. Is it that difficult for them to reintroduce an item that was truly loved and enjoyed? These cookies made every tastebud in your mouth stand up and take notice!! The best part towards the end of them being around, we had to special order them, and then hope to get them before someone else snapped them up. to see if I can find these cookies. Why else would they not capitolize on the chocolate & peanut butter market in 30 yeas? Chill dough for about an hour. Glad to know others remember them and they were not a figment of my imagination. Thats not to say that Hydrox didnt have natural advantages. 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. 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. 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 wish I could get through to Kraft/Nabisco! Finally I returned home with the Ideal cookies after eating my final bite so that the perfect amout was found by my Mom. 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!!!!!