The tough part comes when we have to share the news that the product you're trying to find has been discontinued. Hope they see it. I also always look in the cookie aisle and leave buying no cookies because there is no competition. Our memories are strong. Timmy D PGH WE will prevail. I am not the only one to miss them SO much:) I would buy these religiously if they were made again. Kim McMiller
Associate Director, Consumer Relations. 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. Ooops, maybe the Yoohoos I stole from Uncle Charlie's sandwich shop was first?!?!?! 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. I can still remember that taste. !I'm 7 years old and I NEED them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I will call Nabisco in the morning. I'll send a link to my sister. And I guess there's ony one real answer. PLEASE BRING THEM BACK, NABISCO! But no kidding -Nothing can substitute for Ideals. Please, oh please, bring them back. Not to many, and just enough (until the next trip to the store! You'd make a bundle on themhealth-kick or not, people loved theseand you don't break what's not broken. I would bite off one end and submerge it in a glass of ice cold milk, it would absorb the milk and the center would be soft encased in the crunchy chocolate. :}. No purchase necessary. 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. How can those gawdawful Nilla wafers survive all these years while the ultimate cookie -- the Ideal Bar -- is retired? an update: I just received a msg indicating that my note referenced above was not deliverable to "cis@nabisco.com". When I first saw Little Debbie's version I couldn't believe it. I thought I was the only one who did that - not anymore after reading these comments. The folks at Nabisco must just be a bunch of big, dumb, stupidheads to not want to bring them back. A current Facebook thread on the topic is full of tales about quests for the item. The Ideal Bars by Nabisco was the best cookies that one could buy from the store. 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! I also LOVED Ideal Cookie bars. My Mom too kept these hidden as much as possible because we would devour them. I was looking for ideal bars. 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 loved these Ideal Peanut Butter Bars tooooo much! Can't believe they're gone for good My sister and I were trying to explain this cookie to my youngest daughter today. http://kraftfoods.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/kraftfoods.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php? I found this today searching for clues on Nabisco Tidbits (also sadly no longer made) and found ths link and also found Chocolate Snaps - another old Nabisco snack no longer produced. 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. My dad used to ration them to me and my 3 siblings, otherwise we would eat them all in an hour! 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. There is no replacement for Ideal cookies but Little Debbie makes a similar product. Dark chocolate over crunchy peanut butter, I can almost taste them. 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. Why did they discontinue the cookies!! I loved IDEAL bars!! If they ever do, there is going to be mass hysteria and total chaos around the world!! I miss them!! Thought I was the only one who felt this way about Ideal. Found these comments so wanted to put my two-cents in on this. "Little Debbie" calls them "Peanut Butter Crunch Bars". COME BACK FOR ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I always figured they were available in some part of the country that I hadn't visited yet. My friends and I have been trying to figure out what it was called! google_alternate_color = "E7F0EB";
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PLEASE! I cannot believe the number of people who remember these cookies! PLEASE. Intended to imply hydrogen and oxygenthe two chemicals that make up waterthe result has a more clinical, less roll-off-the-tongue convention to it, and instead evokes hydrogen peroxide, a chemical you probably dont want to drink. A few years back when Nabisco told me that they were discontinued, I was crushed. I still remember them and I'm going to write to Nabisco/Kraft asking them to bring them back! Really, we would all buy them if they would just bring them back, I would love one right now!!! I remember them well. Press gently with palm of hand to flatten slightly. 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. google_ad_format = "120x600_as";
Winner will be selected at random on 04/01/2023. the little Debbie ones don't even come close .Please bring back the ideal. Thanks. I would love to have a nice cold glass of milk and a few Ideals right now. Carl J. Lomen used legal loopholes and Santa Claus to build his meat business. I've asked people over the years but haven't found anyone else that remembers them. I have longed for the Ideal cookie since I got married! YOU CANNOT HAVE THIS MANY PEOPLE WANTING THIS COOKIE AND IGNORE THEM. ideal cookies are the best cookies ever made. It just hit me like a ton of bricks. They were my absolute fav cookie and I can almost taste one! OMG !!! I loved them, too! Thanks a bunch, Nabisco. Every Sunday my stepdad would bring them home from the Fort Mac Commissary and I'd try and eat the whole box that day. The Best Cookie Ever Made, Please Someone Make Them Again, Are Give Me The Recipe And I Will Make Them My Self.. My absolute favorite store-bought cookie EVER!!! Nabisco-PLEASE make them again. I dream of these cookies. The peanut butter part of the Ideals was slightly salty, and that is what made it so good. Unite. I grew up in the midwest and I beleive Karen is correct above that the Ideal was only available in the fall and winter. Oh so very good. I can still taste them and remember the orange and clear cellophane package. bummer. It reminds me of that great Ideal Peanut Butter Bar Taste. I would buy them by the case. The combination of all the ingredients was GENIUS!!! There's one candy bar, Peanut Butter Twix, that kind of reminds me of the essence of Ideal, but still not the real thing. And the name proved such a huge turnoff that Hydrox only had 4.2 percent of the sales of Oreo in 1998just $16 million compared to Oreos $374 million takeaway. I had forgotten about them until the other day when I had a dark chocolate Reese cup. To put that into perspective, consider that the overall global cookies market (i.e. 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. Get them home intact, if possible, refrigerate or freeze, get a glass of ice cold milk, or fresh brewed tea, and eat, a little touch of Heaven! 8 Discontinued Oreo Flavors | Mental Floss Dave in Texas - December 11, 2007 - Report this comment Even thought my dad didnt even get one! This is a dark time in cookie history, one Hydrox partisan, Gary Nadeau, wrote, according to the Wall Street Journal. Aside from this, I remember not only the great flavors of those treats but the sheer QUALITY of them and all of Nabisco products. :}, P.S. We were just talking about how much we miss them and want them back!! We would stock up on them when we knew snowstorms were approaching. Cheers to all you fellow Ideal Cookie Lovers! My grandma always bought a package of Ideals for when I was coming over to stay. The Little Debbie things are similar but nowhere close to as good. getting the chocolate on your fingers was part of the funlicking it off after you were done with the cookie. I cannot believe there are others out there like my family. I can even smell them now, I was about 9 then and now I'm 46. Please bring them back, Nabisco! When I revisted Cali they didn't have any as well. At that point is when I realized I had the most "Ideal" day ever with my childhood. Anyways, not as good as Ideal, I'd like to see them come back. I have been longing for these cookies and although I could not currently eat them like I did when I was young, I would keep them on hand to eat a few daily. What can we do to have Nabisco make these cookies again? Bring Back Old Recipe for SnackWell's Devil's Food Cookies Hands down the #1 cookie of all time. 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! My wife and I were just talking about the magical flavor that these cookies had. If Nabisco won't do it I wish they would sell the recipe to Keebler, they have some really good products. The Return to the Brown-Edged Wafer - Out of Ambit Oh, what happened to them!? Never could another cookie compare!! Anyone know of a recipe to make them at home? "Today just being fat-free is not enough," he said. google_color_link = "A74403";
She had the idea of looking for them online. :). Do any of you remember how much better they tasted when they were cold. Very upset when it was discontinued. Then, I'd eat the ends of each bar first. Wouldn't you think Nabisco would want make some bucks and satisfy the public by bringing this cookie back to market? Every weekday we compile our most wondrous stories and deliver them straight to you. I CAN REMEMBER WHEN OCTOBER CAME AROUND WE STARTED LOOKING IN THE GROCERY FOR IDEAL COOKIES. 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. Please bring them back! Nothing like some Nutter Butters with a view. Every once in a while my brother & I will talk about them. 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. The Rise, Fall, and Return of Hydrox Cookies, the Proto-Oreo. Nabisco/YouTube. I kind of make a substitute with Ritz crackers, peanut butter and melted chocolate chips. Once Nabisco had removed the lard, mainly for health reasons, going kosher became possible. These were the best cookies ever! Thanks to all for the enhancing my belief that the Ideal Chocolate Peanut Butter bar is the best store bought cookie ever made!! I havent had an Ideal cookie in about 45 years but they are still my favorite cookie- bar none. I googled Ideal cookies tonight and am absolutely STUNNED at how many people LOVED these cookies as much as me!!!!! My Mother kept these IDEAL Peanut Butter Cookie Logs in the Bread Box part of our shelvesthey were maybe three inches long and sorta like a flatted log.dark rich chocolate, didn't taste cheap.and had an inner crispy peanut butter filling, with some moisture.something like a Clark Bar taste, only a bit more of a cookie. They are so missing the boat on a retro line for all of us who remember these products. Bring them back! When Nabisco first started, the biscuit cookies and crackers were stored in large bins, or cracker barrels and sold at country grocery stores by the scoopful. Im disappointed to learn that they no longer make these wonderful cookies. And, for a minute, it felt like a game-changer for Sunshine Biscuits. It's decades later and those of us middle aged and older would enjoy having a cookie that tastes like something other than sugar to snack on. http://www.mondelezinternational.com/ ( MondelezInternationaldotcom)has bought out the snack division of Nabisco. Man I loved those things. I still look for these cookies when I go in the grocery store hoping they will magically appear. Does nabisco still make uneeda biscuits? These were the best cookies ever. Maybe they can assist to get them back, They were the best cookies EVER MADE nd NOTHING compares. Little Debbie are close.
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