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.

Definitely two different things as op says although we called the 10p or 20p selections of penny sweets "mixtures" in my neck of the wood in the late 80s.

@FitAt50

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

I'd call it a 10p mix or 20p mix. Had totally forgotten about it til now. They were also sold at primary school discos. Edinburgh area.

This is going to be like people who called a packed lunch a pack up, it'll be regional.

I've never heard of a mix up at the small white pre mixed packs you refer to didn't exist where I live.

To me pick and mix is something you pick the contents of your self, generally self service.

Mix up is a small bag of sweets randomly picked by a member of staff from a selection of small sweets ie chews.

You’d go to the local shoppy and ask for a 10p/20p mix up. Pick n mix was what you bought in the cinema or Woolies.

What you describe is a mix up (5p, 10p, 20p mix up)

A pick n mix is self served and in Woolies or the cinema.

Maybe its also an age thing. I'm from Sw, born mid 80s and never seen pre mixed little bags.

I’ve never heard it called a mix up-the white bags with stuff already in were just called a ‘10p bag’.

10p mix up from paper shop on Sundays, but we got to choose from little boxes of sweets. The best was when blackjacks and fruit salads were half a penny each. Late 70s early 80s mid-Kent. 50p! That’s massive!

Pick n mix is what you get at the cinema or supermarket mix up is what you get from the corner shop.

10p mix in Stoke in the 80s. You could pick your own, or they had ready made ones (which were mostly foam shrimps and other shit ones, and not enough fizzy cola bottles)

Pick and Mix is the overpriced version they had in Woolworths.

Definitely a mix up.

where i'm from it was called a 10p mixture..... it was premixed in a wee white paper bag

YANBU. The little white bag is a mixup - a selection of “penny” sweets. You asked for a bag by value- e.g. a 10p mixup or whatever. You got maybe 10 sweets in a 10p mixup, things like gummy snakes, sour apples, white mice and cola bottles.
Pick and mix, you pick your favourite sweets from a selection, usually things like dolly mixtures, bonbons eclairs no and jazzies. You can have all one type or a mix of them all. You pay for them by weight. Available from Tesco, the cinema, sweet shops in shopping malls etc but rarely the local newsagents or corner shop.
Been like that her for at least 50 years that I can remember.

It used to be a 10p mix at our corner shop.

I used to say mix up. You never picked and mixed in the 70s the lady in the shop did it or it was made up.

Mixed bag in South West Cumbria

It was ALWAYS a mix up when I was little 30 years ago... I'm from the south.

A 10p mixture. You used to choose your own from the 1p and 1/2p sweets. Then when I was older and 1/2p was got rid of they’d be already prepared in the bags.

@Newrumpus

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.

This is what we called - we asked for a 5p mix up or a 10p mix up and the shopkeeper chose for you

You are right.
A mix up is in a white paper bag that has been pre mixed for you.
A pick n mix is when you pick the sweets yourself.

Why would a mix up be called a PICK n mix as you dont pick the sweets in it? Its a lucky dip!!!

Yes you are right, two different things.

We called it a mix bag. 10p worth of sweets in a white bag. You didn't pick the sweets
A pix n mix is you choose which sweets you want and its priced by weight

@sadpapercourtesan

10p mix in Stoke in the 80s. You could pick your own, or they had ready made ones (which were mostly foam shrimps and other shit ones, and not enough fizzy cola bottles)

Pick and Mix is the overpriced version they had in Woolworths.

I used to sell 10p mix’s in my mums corner shop in Stoke.

If a parent asked for a mix I’d put 10 random sweets in a bag (or 2 sweets if they were teddy bears). Kids could choose their own 10p worth of sweets but we bagged them, the sweets were behind the counter, you didn’t bag them yourself.

Pick n mixes were what you got in Woolworths, sold by weight.

I grew up with the 10p mix.

I see 'mix ups' for sale on local Facebook groups and it gives me an uncontrollable and unreasonable rage for some reason.