When Arnott's changed the recipe of long-time favourite Australian snack Pizza Shapes, hysteria swept the nation.

Many were driven to stockpile the biscuit brand, such as this Melbourne man, who snapped up 60 packets before the company resurrected the original recipe.

The unnamed man has taken to social media to make a desperate plea for members of the public to take the biscuits off his hands before it's too late.

A man bought 60 packets of Pizza Shapes when the flavour changed appears to have the buyer's remorse

‘22 packets of pizza shapes, expired 13/09/16. I bought 60 of them when I thought the old flavour was never coming back and now I am well and truly over them,’ the man wrote.

Commenters threw support behind the man, hailing his dedication to the cause and reassuring him about his purchase.

‘This person is a genius,’ wrote one commenter.

‘Stale ones of the old recipe are probably still better than the new ones anyway,’ wrote another.

At the height of the hysteria, boxes of Barbecue Shapes, which were also temporarily changed, were selling for up to $1,000 on Ebay.

Arnott’s was forced to bring back the original recipe Shapes varieties amid fierce backlash over its flavour meddling.

Arnott's controversially meddled with the flavour in April before backflipping and resurrecting the original