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.

YANBU.

10p mix up from the post office - a white paper bag with ~10 sweets (still had 1/2p sweets when I was little!).

Pick and mix - very expensive sweets you choose yourself and weigh from the cinema or Woolworths.

Bristol, if it helps!

My experience growing up (in N. Ireland) was that a 10p/20p mix up came pre bagged and a pick n mix was when you got an empty bag and selected the sweets yourself, and paid by weight. So yeah two different things.

While we’re on the subject, was anyone else able to get ‘quarters’ in their local shop? You’d ask for a quarter (quarter pound, so roughly 125g) of your chosen sweet, they’d weigh it out and tip it into a bag. I used to see these in every local shop as a child and now so few places do them.

Also penny chews, are they still a thing? Are they still a penny?! Fruit Salads… yum

Oh my god totally took me back to my childhood. Small shop in town that just did sweets run by a lovely old man, had loads of the little bags of 10p sweets. That's all we really called them, not pick and mix or mix up. Just 10p sweets. Was amazing.

Pick and mix you select yourself from lots of sweets and chocolates and then the bag. Is weighed

10p mix in my day was a bag of pre selected sweets in a paper bag. There was always a lily and some cola bottles. With or without gum. With had a small golf ball that turned into chewing gum that lost its flavour in three seconds.

Never heard of mix up but pick and mix is what used to be in Woolworths where there were lots of wrapped sweets like quality street and you picked what you wanted and paid per quarter pound.

10p mix up in a white bag.

It was a 10p mixture when I was wee in Edinburgh.

Mix up from the corner shop where the shopkeeper bagged it up for you according to the price you wanted to pay; you'd request "a 10p / 20p mix up please".

Pick 'n mix in Woolworths or at the cinema where you scooped it yourself into a cup / bag and then had it weighed to determine the final price.

10p mix here (never "mix up").

10p mix (no up) was my reward for picking up the Sunday paper for my parents. Pick ‘n’ mix definitely a different thing altogether. 10p mix was a mystery bag of penny sweets from the corner shop.

Pick and Mix

10p mix, either with or without bubblegum.

You are right

Pick and mix is when you used to go to Woolworths (other shops now available) and you chose the sweets you wanted, put them in a bag, they were weighed and you paid for a whole heap more than you had intended to buy.

A 'mix up' is a little white paper bag that the shopkeeper had previously made up before you were even in the shop and it was a fixed price depending on your age of something like 10p

We used to call the penny sweets you’d get at the shop a “mix” - 10p mix, 20p mix.
To me, a pic n mix is like the big wall of sweets you’d scoop at woolies (or now at Wilko).

@Caterinasballerinas

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

Came on to say the same thing. Can't buy penny sweets anymore :(

Mix up is premade and sold by item 10p for 10 sweets, 20p for 20 etc. Or sometimes 50p which might have a few bigger sweets costing 5p/10p.
Pick n mix you get to choose from containers and it is charged by weight as usually the cup/bag is too big to individually count.

@Caterinasballerinas

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

This. It's a 10p mix - no up!

We just used to call it a 10p mix.
Sweets were 1/2p 1p or 2 p and you chose what you wanted

In Ireland they were just called "10 penny bags" or "tempney bags" in my part of Dublin 😂

This makes me very happy 😊 10p mixup/mix is pretty much the same thing.

You are 💯 correct

@soundsystem

You are 💯 correct

Why thank you 😊

10p mix, or dip. Never heard it called mix up. But is deffo not pick n mix which is fancy and not from the corner shop.

We called it a mixture.Could get them in a wee white paper bag for 10p from the local corner shop or the ice cream van.
I'm in Scotland. Never heard of a mix up.

It was a pick n mix in the shop but we called it a mix up at home…. So both