On a new tv commercial for Breyer's ice cream sandwiches, the announcer suggests that when we were children the mere mention of ice cream would throw us into a "tizzy." I question the use of this word, which means a frenzied state of excitement and possibly includes confusion. When I was a child a tizzy was almost like a tantum. It was certainly not something we went into at the mention of always-welcome ice cream. It would be more related to having to eat liver or spinach. So while Breyer's is trying to be very nostalgic, I think they had better research their expressions of the past or at least make sure the copywriter's mother knew what tizzy meant.
Ice cream sandwiches do not encourage tizzies. Rather, they are the bee's knees... or, at the risk of repeating ourselves, the cat's meow.
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