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.

@fairylightsandwaxmelts

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.

This, only there was some control with a mix up. Most shops made them up as they were requested so you could say no milk bottles or can you include a strawberry lace please. The sweets were typically 1 or 2p each, although I remember some were a half penny eg jelly teddy bear. The shopkeeper would give you a selection up to the price of the mix up you’d requested (typically 10p in my youth). It was sold in the white paper bags they used for quarters of sweets.

A pick and mix was a trip to Woolworths, using a scoop to get your own sweets, barely covering the bottom of abhuge bag with your dad closely checking you didn’t go over £1 (probably £10 in today’s money).

How about pick and mix you pay by weight and a mix-up is by sweet/bag?

Mix up is when you hand over the money and the shopkeeper puts 1 or 2 of each sweet in a little paper bag.
Pick and Mix is sold by weight and can be help yourself or be behind a counter.

@CeeceeBloomingdale you explained that a lot better than I did 😂😂
In my mind they are two completely different things. My friend is somewhat confused by these responses as she was certain it's called a pick n mix

I've never heard of a mix up. It's pic n mix or pre-bagged.

A coke is still a coke even if its sold In a restaurant, for 5 x the price and in a fancy glass.

Unless of course "is Pepsi ok"

Anyway, YABU. It's a pic n mix

It was just a 10p mix from the van where I was, not heard mix-up before (Glasgow). But def different to pick and mix! Used to get that at Woolies.

I would have called that a mixture

In Scotland that's called a mixture and you used to ask for a 10p or 20p mixture.

@undercoverhero74
Its a mix up, you buy it made up a pick n mix is sweets u get to pick urself hench where the PICK comes from.

I have in mind that a mix up was what we used to call it when you put a little of every spirit in the drinks cabinet (so your parents wouldn't know you'd taken any) into an empty bottle to take to the school disco...

Was a 10p mix from newsagents I always used to hate the white chocolate mouse.

Pick and mix is what you used to get from Woolworths.

@FitAt50

In Scotland that's called a mixture and you used to ask for a 10p or 20p mixture.

I'm in Scotland and called it a 10p mix up

We had a 50p mix or a £1 mix which was a little white bag that you couldn't see inside of. A pick n mix is a big plastic stand where you pick your own sweets. There's no choosing with a 50p mix, you get what you're given

I’ve just seen another poster mention they are in the north east, I am too. I wonder if mix up is a regional term?

Also for those NEers, can you remember the pick and mix shop Butterfly in the metro centre when it first opened? It was pioneering in the sweet world after 10p mix ups

Penny sweets.
Pick n Mix.

Never ever heard of a mix up!

@CustardGoodJamGoodMeatGood

We had a 50p mix or a £1 mix which was a little white bag that you couldn't see inside of. A pick n mix is a big plastic stand where you pick your own sweets. There's no choosing with a 50p mix, you get what you're given

You must be very young, £1 on sweets!

10p mix here too but you did choose your sweets, never heard it called a mix up. I'm in the NW

10p mix (no bubblies) from the corner shop

Pick n mix - Woolworths or the cinema (pictures)

Mix up - misunderstanding

Was it not just a 10p bag?

Our local shop still does them - except now they’re a €1 bag 😲

YANBU
Two separate things!

Definitely not the same thing. We didn’t call the pm mix ups but I know what you mean and it’s different to a pick n mix. They were penny sweets where we were and you did get to pick your own but they were priced per sweet. So the newsagent would check in your bag and tot up what you owed. Or they might trust you if you said “I’ve got 20p there”.

Pick n mix is what you got in Woolworths and you’d try for £1 but inevitable overshoot the weight by miles.

Hmmm, it just occurred to me I never see pink chocolate outside a mix-up. I always steal my dd’s pink mice (she doesn’t really like them - I’m not that mean!).

Pick n mix here BUT we did actually pick the mix – still a 10p selection in a little white bag, but there was a choice element I think you were lacking. Always heavy on the fruit salads for me, more bang for your buck, versus a jazzy which looks pretty but actually very little sweetie per pence.

Wonder if there’s a regional venn diagram between people who say “mix up” and people who say “pack up” rather than packed lunch?

10p mixture
I remember my local corner shop had trays
2p 5p 10p, Cola bottles, Sherbet, white mice, chocolate bananas, cola cubes.
Dd1 used to take ages picking sweets from the trays and shop owner adding it up to 20p.