why did nabisco stop making ideal cookies? why did nabisco stop making ideal cookies?

Still, it was Oreo that, as it approached its 75th anniversary in 1986, inspired The New York Times to write at length about the cookies cultural value. 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. evenings watching TV and eating a package of them with Daddy & cold white milk. I would base my weekly calorie intake around these cookies! I wrote to Nabisco about ten years ago and was told they weren't big sellers. Was there a special machine needed which cannot get parts anymore? Little Debbie makes something similar, but we need the real ideal back!! I used to demolish a whole strip of them at once. I agree, 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. How difficult can this be? Those cookies were both of our favorites. Go to this page and leave them a request to BRING BACK IDEAL COOKIE BARS!!! Holy cow. 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. I would love to see them make a comeback! I loved them and there is nothing even close to their goodness!!! After a little research I have discovered that Nabisco was bought by Kraft back in 2000. The taste brought back a memory from 30+ years ago. I would love Nabisco to bring this delicious chocolate delightful cookie back! Just found a Peanut Butter Crunch cookie by Little Debbie. I encourage all you IDEAL fans to reach out to Nabisco too. That was where all the sweets were kept. Maybe they cost too much for the average consumer but we average consumers have changed and will gladly pay for quality. Do your part to make this happenPLEASE!!! We all should go to the keebler web site and leave our coments there also. Ideal. I think of these cookies often. Reeses' stix are not the same but still evoke some of the same taste. "You have to have the right. I used to look forward to our Sunday visits to my grandparents. I was looking for ideal bars. I still have dreams about these cookiesonce came home for lunch from school and mom had gone to a meeting. IDEAL COOKIES ARE A FAR CRY BETTER THAN ANY OTHER THEY MAKE. I don't know why the hoopleheads at Nabisco won't make these incredibly popular bars anymore. 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. Little Debbie,PB Twix etc. Ya Gotta bring EM back they are the true IDEAL snack of all time!!! I'm not sure I am that good a person. They were awesome. Down a pint of ale where the Bishop of Ely's servants slept in 1546. In the 1970s and 80s, when the guards stepped away, the pots and flames came out. I would, I loved them. It just as well that they don't bring back because I think I would overdose on them or balloon to 400 lbs! 1993 Kraft General Foods acquires NABISCO ready-to-eat cold cereals from RJR Nabisco. The Ideal Bars by Nabisco was the best cookies that one could buy from the store. Does anyone remember another cookie at that same time that had chocolate, caramel, and covered with nuts? 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. It was the absolute best. What could be better. They were even better cold. I wish I could get through to Kraft/Nabisco! Regular stores, specialty stores. I'm about 10 years younger than my siblings and they used to have us begging like dogs just to get the cookies. Followed by Penguin cookies! I loved these cookies. Ive been looking for these cookies to magically appear back on the shelves for years! LEMON COOLERS! google_ad_client = "pub-1475700848612418"; Nothing compares!!! I moved to Texas in the early 70's and couldn't find them anywhere. Since were so loved there is no doubt they would be a best seller. You would think in the year 2010 they could figure out some solution to the melting problem. Perfect. Now - as to starting a "petition" - any suggestions and who would like to sign?! They were so good. - Touche, old man! Hands down the best cookie ever. I suggest we all keep contacting them. they really left an impression on me. I called it and REALLY let a customer service rep know what they need to do. They get all this old stuff that is hard to find, unfortunately I never heard anything from them. Nabisco is owned by Kraft Foods. I have been searching for these damn cookies for decades hoping upon hope I could find them again. Best cookie ever made.Dad hid them from me and I hid them from him. An eye-opening journey through the history, culture, and places of the culinary world. They look and taste exactly like the original "Ideal Bar". She said they were expensive so we couldn't always get them, but I always tried. At this point I knew I had a problem. Ideal bars were the best cookies ever made! 1981 Nabisco merges with Standard Brands. I am emclosing the text of the email. 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. I can speak for the rest of our clan and say Nabisco bring back the Ideal Cookie Bars and make the world a sweeter place. He could not believe the Ideal bar interrogation. Please Nabisco give us an answer!!!! Bring them back. Then he started pre-bagging them for lunch. 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. Wow, I had no idea "THEY" were gone forever, I thought they were just lost. The real chocolate coating made them a seasonal cookie. Kids can't grow up without tasting these! I agree I would pay $10 for ideals the only cookie i liked. My kids love peanut butter and chocolate, I know they would devour these! Write to this addy Kraft Foods Global, Inc. Consumer Relations Group 1 Kraft Court Glenview, IL 60025. I have been craving them for years. Whoever bought it or felt the need to make a change . I cannot believe that I found this site. The best cookie of the 60s and 70s. It works perfectly. I grew up devouring these cookies, they are the BEST ever Nabisco made. It was discontinued after seven years, but we would love to have just one more of these tasty treats. Please, Nabisco, Please! I looked forward to autumn when they would reappear at Thriftway supermarket. I MISS THEM TO THIS DAY!!! He's 92 now and was asking about them last week. I have tried all the "almost Ideal Bars". What can we do to have Nabisco make these cookies again? Someone needs to start a facebook group. Loved Ideals-The Very Best! But if you take a look off to the side in the grocery store, you might see one brand in particular that, in fact, was invented four years before Oreosa cookie brand that looks remarkably similar. After 30 years of no Ideal ccokies they musthave been to good for us m ere mortals. thanks to all for the great memories & hope! Brand history. I loved these Ideal Peanut Butter Bars tooooo much! I also LOVED the cookies as a child. Good times. Oh so very good. There were air gaps between the various layers of the one cookie I ate so far. My sisters and I loved them and ordering GS Tagalongs reminds us every year that they've disappeared. I still look for these cookies when I go in the grocery store hoping they will magically appear. But the cookies design, which was initially sold with an exotic English biscuit twist, was pretty interesting for its era: With an industrial press from a mold, the cookie took on the look of a flower. Midnight munchies were also a time to slip away to savor these delectable treats. Have tea in a cemetery with a dazzling view of Istanbul. If you can believe it (and it's true) I actually went through shock treatment using Ideal bars as a food I should not eat (a loose weight gimmick in the 70's which is still used for smoking). Bring 'em back Nabisco!!!!!! You have to keep them refrigerated because the chocolate will melt. I really think Nabisco (Kraft) needs to re-evaluate product selectionsand give the people what they want! I bet they have trans-fats, but I would make an exception and still eat them. I have thought for years that they would come back. I did NOT have to share them. Please contact them for bringing back Chocolate Ideal Peanut Bars!!! I hated to see that they discontinued them!!!!!!! Unite. Sometimes we used them as scoops with vanilla or new york ice cream. Maybe I will email Keebler and encourage them to check out this site - for sure there's a demand - so how 'bout they provide the supply - :). Hey NABISCO ITS TIME!!! I LIVE IN SOUTH LOUISIANA AND WE ONLY HAD IDEAL COOKIES IN THE COOL MONTHS. Nabisco Cookies. Then she dunked the whole thing in melted semi-sweet chocolate chips. I'll send a link to my sister. Nabisco PLEASE bring them back!!! Please bring them back. Every Sunday my stepdad would bring them home from the Fort Mac Commissary and I'd try and eat the whole box that day. So i made the recipe as per instructions, with only one change: swapping in a cup of rice flour for the cup of potato flour. Ritz Bits S'mores. Nabisco, if these wonderful cookies are too expensive to make and sell in a package of cookies, how about packaging them as candy bars? I'm from CT,and my Dad would buy them whenever they were available. 1971 Nabisco becomes the corporate name. There never will be another cookie like it. Little Debbie makes a larger bar that are okay, but not from the same pure chocolate or peanut butter. They were fabulous and I would give anything to have one today. The Best cookie EVER! My family still brings up these delicious cookies and wonders why Nabisco doesn't make them anymore It's Time to write Nabisco, Best cookie ever! soooooooo are they coming back, i'm still needing them!!!!!! Every year for Christmas my parents would buy me a lot of them for my stocking. Little Debbies just don't work for me. I used to buy Ideal cookies when I lived in Wisconsin. No luck, so we checked another, and another. Cheers to all you fellow Ideal Cookie Lovers! mmmmMMMMmmmmmMMMMMM!!!!! 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???!!!!!!!!!!! Get the peanut butter filled pretzel bits from Trader Joe's and dip them in melted dark chocolate. Miss them so much. Would happily pay more for ideal bars than for any other cookie. It sounds like lots of other people would too! Or give it to the Girl Scouys. Perhaps if we all email Nabisco. It was the best store bought. Sorry, Belinda, Peanut Butter Twix is not even close! Press gently with palm of hand to flatten slightly. Cannot understand why Nabisco will not bring them back. Whenever I eat a Reeses peanut butter stick, I think of the Ideal Bar and how much better it is. 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. Lets band together!!! Dark chocolate over crunchy peanut butter, I can almost taste them. SURE WISH THEY'D BRING THEM BACK EVEN AS A SEASONAL SPECIALTY. Wow, I went online looking for Count Chocula and I found this great support group for fans of the greatest cookie ever! I am willing to attempt another contact with nabisco whatever will work. I could sit and eat a whole box when I was a kid. Golderberger had some thoughts on the Hydrox, too. As 1 of 7 kids we would all wait til Mom got home from shopping to check out the bags and be sure she got them. I found the FB page but there isn't enough activity to turn the heads of Nabisco. My husband and I lived in the mountains befor they had cable, so we would listen to the stereo and have Ideal cookies and Milk two or three times a week! Grew up in the Detroit area . Not quite the same quality but really close. I can't go in to the cookie isle without looking for them. That is one of the many great memories of my childhood.