Mix up or pick n mix

[undercoverhero74]

Please help settle a debate. I was reminiscing with a friend about the 50p mix up I used to get a kid at the local corner shop. She laughed at me and said it’s not called a mix up is called a pick n mix. I correctly told her that a pick n mix is the overly expensive sweets you pay for per 100g and comes in the snazzy stripy bags at the cinema whereas a mix up is a small selection of penny sweets that come In a small white bag. She completely disagrees and now I’m unsure if I’m wrong.
YANBU it’s definitely called a mix up and your friend is a Wally.
YABU it’s a pick n mix and you have been saying it wrong your whole life.

Used to get a 10p mix up from the corner shop

YABU, it’s pick and mix, hense why the companies that do it like you mentioned call it pick and mix. Mix up makes no sense, pick and mix does cos you pick what you want and it can be a mix of you want!

Was it already in the bag? I would have called that a mixture. Pick and mix is when you get to pick!

Always pic n mix

YANBU it was a 10p mix when I was little, ten carefully chosen sweets. Pick n mix was from Woolworths or the cinema and by weight

It’s always been pick n mix and I’ve never heard mix up in my entire 44 years.

@WorriedGiraffe

YABU, it’s pick and mix, hense why the companies that do it like you mentioned call it pick and mix. Mix up makes no sense, pick and mix does cos you pick what you want and it can be a mix of you want!

No, yabu In some mix ups you didnt get a choice and just get the wee white bag with some sweets in In some cases you got to choose the mix

To me they are two different things. As kids we got a “mix up” at the corner shop, and we did not pick what was in it. “Pick and mix” was a real treat that your gran got you in Woolworths, and you selected the sweets you wanted to have, which always ended up costing a million pounds.

Remember getting a 10p mix up when I was small.

No, yabu
In some mix ups you didnt get a choice and just get the wee white bag with some sweets in
In some cases you got to choose the mix

Still called a pick and mix, never heard it called anything else! Mix up sounds daft.

10p mix when I was young, but that was a long time ago!

They're two different things.

Pic n mix is when you choose your own.
Mix ups are when you pick a bag that's pre-filled with sweets to a certain value.

It was a 10p mix from the paper shop, and a pic n mix in Woolworths.

@WorriedGiraffe

No, yabu In some mix ups you didnt get a choice and just get the wee white bag with some sweets in In some cases you got to choose the mix

Still called a pick and mix, never heard it called anything else! Mix up sounds daft.

Maybe its daft to you but it's what it was called when i used to buy them

Was 5p, 10p, or 20p mix here. Ready made in a little white bag, best sweets were Mojos, worst were pink shrimps or blackjacks.

Pick n mix would have been from the cinema or wilkos that you chose yourself.

You chose your own in both.

I've never heard of mix up before. I have had premade up bags of penny sweets before but didn't know they had a name.

You’re right, mix up was a little white paper bag with no choice (my village shop still do them hurrah). Pick and mix = rip off by weight!

Just to clarify I'm talking about the pre selected sweets in a little white bag from the corner shop. I have always known these to be a mix up, you could either get a 10p, 20p or 50p mix. A pick n mix is completely different and as others have said is the pick your own that your find in Woolworths/cinema 😊

Pic n mix. My guilty pleasure as an adult.

YANBU
You can’t call it a pick and mix if you don’t get to pick!

Wonder if it's an age/region thing? We used to get 10p or 20p mix ups in the corner shop - you didn't get to choose the sweets and they came in little white paper bags already made up. They'd be laid out on the counter and you picked up a bag and paid your 10 or 20p. Pick and mix was from Woolworths or the cinema for me. I'm in the North East and grew up in the late 80s/early 90s.

I’ve never heard of calling this (or anything) a mix up, only pick and mix, but I’m willing to believe this term existed!

Yanbu.

When I was a child they had all the 1p/2p sweets in what looked like old ice cream cartons and you picked them out with tongs while the shop keeper watched you and counted. They had some fancier sweets for 5p/10p each but they were only for when you were flush.

Just to confuse matters further, my friends and I used to call it a mixture. A mixture to me is a small big bag, either premade or selected by the customer but picked and put in the bag by the vendor.

A pick and mix is generally higher value with a bigger selection of sweets and you scoop your own.(Or a parent scoops it for you so that you don't buy too much)