15 Discontinued Cookies We Aren't Getting Back

Delivered to the store in paper sleeve packaging, these delectable rectangles of chocolatey goodness were moist, soft, and utterly irresistible. The cookies themselves were made up of a light and sponge-like chocolate cake surrounded by a thin layer of marshmallow, finished off with semi-hard chocolate skin. If these were in your home growing up, what you likely remember most about them is how quickly they would be gone.

The Devil's Food Cakes by Nabisco were sold for decades before being made round and placed under the SnackWell's label in 1992. The rectangular cakes were turned into more cookie-like discs of chocolate while retaining the same basic version of the snack. However, that changed later on, as SnackWell's version became Devil's Food Cookie Cakes. It features nearly equally-sized layers of chocolate cake and marshmallows, now stacked inside a chocolate outer shell. They may not be terrible, but they are still just not the same.

For decades, British children enjoyed a popular snack from the United Biscuits company called Happy Faces. Nabisco released a similar version of Happy Faces for the American market called Giggles, which proved to be a popular treat in the '80s. United Biscuits ownership changed several times in the late 20th century and would eventually become a part of Nabisco.

Giggles are round sandwich-style cookies made from two vanilla cookies filled with fudge and vanilla cream in the middle. For those who were children in the '80s, you may not specifically remember Giggles cookies by name, but the variety of smiling and happy faces on the treats will surely spark a memory of your early days. The cookies not only had fun faces baked into them, but the eyes and mouths also opened, revealing the cream inside. This made snack time just a bit more fun, if not tasty.

Keebler has been keeping our pantries full of sugary sweet and delicious snacks for generations thanks to their legion of baking elves behind the scenes. With its origins in a single Philadelphia bakery in 1853, Keebler is known for its wide variety of cookies and crackers more than for any one single product. It's probably even better recognized for its Keebler Elves advertising. Perhaps forgotten among these varieties is a tasty snack called Magic Middles.

This cookie is a shortbread treat that was offered either plain or with chocolate chips. Both were filled with a chocolatey fudge center. For most people who like a good cookie (especially kids), having one filled with a bit of chocolate just makes it that much better. It is unclear exactly when these left store shelves, as there does not appear to have been any large outcry at the time (like when Coca-Cola introduced New Coke). However, it appears there are people who are dearly missing their delicious Keebler snack; a petition posted on Change.org implores Keebler to bring Magic Middles back. Despite this, Keebler replied to queries on Twitter in 2019 that no plans exist for them to return.

The South is known for many delicious sweet treats, including key lime pie, peach cobbler, and buttermilk pie. Another well-known Southern snack you may have seen in stores is the Moon Pie from Chattanooga, Tennessee. This classic features two thick graham crackers with creamy marshmallow filling all dipped in chocolate. It is simple and delicious. Perhaps that is why the cookie-like variety Moon Pie Crunch no longer exists — you should never mess with perfection.

While the Moon Pie is a legendary snack that many say is best when enjoyed with an RC Cola, the Moon Pie Crunch attempted to make more of a cookie out of the original, perhaps to boost business by expanding the company's offerings. The Crunch is much smaller and has a similar appearance to a Thin Mint cookie. Its graham crackers are replaced with chocolate cookies, and the marshmallow is replaced with either mint or peanut butter filling. Both are covered in chocolate just like the original. It may not sound like such a terrible combination, but it apparently did not sell, as it is no longer listed on the Moon Pie website or with any retailer.

After Nabisco started branching out with its Oreo cookies and creating different flavors and styles, it was bound to make a mistake eventually. Uh-Oh! Oreos maybe was not really a mistake, but that is how the brand portrayed it in advertising. This cookie is the reverse of the traditional Oreo, having vanilla cookies sandwiched together with chocolate in between.

The reverse Oreos (and a clever commercial) came out in 2003. Perhaps the idea was to draw in customers who preferred cookies other than Oreos and would be drawn to these for not being ... Oreos?

Oreos are pretty well split. People either like them or they don't, and not much resides in between. Those who don't enjoy Oreos are more likely to seek another brand more to their tastes than to get a bastardized version of Oreos just to support Nabisco for some reason. Maybe it is not surprising they aren't around anymore. There seems to be little remembrance of them on the Internet, except for the catchy commercial on YouTube.

Teddy Grahams are a perennial favorite among the nursery set, and they're still going strong today, pleasing toddler palates everywhere. The bite-sized treat debuted in 1988, introducing us to a sweeter, smaller, and more fun version of the graham cracker that straddles the line between cracker and cookie. They are further enhanced by being flavored (originally with cinnamon, honey, or chocolate), and they are also all finished off with a light sugary glaze. There is almost nothing to hate about a full box of Teddy Grahams.

The snack saw instant success, and Nabisco, the company behind them, did what giant conglomerates do: expand the name into a larger variety of snacks to squeeze each bear for as much profit as possible. One of those iterations was the Teddy Grahams Bearwiches. By the name, it's easy to deduce them to be Teddy Graham sandwich cookies. They were larger cookie-sized sandwiches that came in the same three flavors of Teddy Grahams, with either vanilla or chocolate filling, much like an Oreo. They apparently did well in the early days, as the Chicago Tribune reported good sales in the Northeast test market and noted Stage Deli, a longtime New York favorite that is now closed, had included them on a child's plate. Not only is the deli gone, but the Bearwiches are also history.

As a child growing up at any time from about 1971 to 2003, a trip to McDonald's was not complete without cracking open a box of their famous cookies. As a companion to the Happy Meal, McDonald's offered a small box of cookies printed with some variation of the restaurant's mascots, and it usually had some kind of pop-up handle on top. The container designs changed over the years, but the snacks remained the same. They were not much different from the popular animal crackers eaten by small children. The cookies themselves were also shaped like Ronald and the gang, while the flavor was unremarkable as it was not the point.

McDonaldland Cookies fell by the wayside along with Grimace, the Hamburgler, and Ronald. Accusations that McDonald's marketing directly to children was driving obesity rates became an increasingly big problem for the company in the late '90s, resulting in pressure for them to change course. In 2003, all the McDonaldland characters were retired along with the cookies, although the Happy Meal remains to this day.

Oreo has tried a lot of tricks in the last few decades to keep the brand relevant. Making them super-sized or turning the cookies inside out failed to grab long-lasting attention, and at some point, someone thought making the cookies perform a trick might be the thing to add something to the mix.

Oreo Magic Dunkers appear to be like any other Oreo at first glance, aside from the packaging. But things take a turn when you eat them in what many see as the traditional way, dunked in milk. The magic part of the Magic Dunkers is that when you put one in your milk glass, it turns the drink blue. Created in 2000, Nabisco used a special blue food coloring that made it such that the more you dunk your cookie, the bluer it became. This "magic" was enhanced by the creamy filling in the package being completely white like ordinary Oreos. With the flavor generally unchanged, this was obviously a gimmick aimed at children. But for kids, sometimes fun is more important than flavor.