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.

In the 70's in my area of the North East, you got a 5p or 10p Mix Up from the shop or van. You pointed to what you wanted from half pence and penny or 2 pence sweets. The white chocolate mice and beaded circles were horrible. Pick Your Own, came from barrels with scoops, in Fine Fare. You filled the bags yourself. They had all sorts of other things in barrels as well - cereals, flour, sugar etc. Fine Fare were ahead of their time - you got big brown paper bags with no handles for your shopping at the till.

Mix up was like the 1p sweets from the newsagent

Pick and mix was like in woollies bit nicer sweets per 100g

Mix-ups sound fab, we didn’t have them in South West London.

We had a proper sweet shop near our school with massive jars of sweets, the owner would sell them by weight.

Pick & mix from Wooliee was expensive in comparison.

I used to get a 10p mix too. It was always a ‘temp nee mix’ to me! 😆

Yanbu it's a mix up!!

10p mixture

Mix up in England when I lived there as a child, mixture in Scotland as a teen.

Pick and mix is the expensive Petri dish of stale sweets that lots of people touch with their shitty hands and charge over the odds for in cinemas and woolies (rip)

Pick n mix

You're right, OP. A mix-up (they were called lucky bags where I grew up) is a completely different thing from pick 'n' mix.

@FatOaf

You're right, OP. A mix-up (they were called lucky bags where I grew up) is a completely different thing from pick 'n' mix.

A luckbag was something different- they were overpriced bags that had a couple of crap sweets and a tiny Plastic toy or trick (usually a flipping fish or similar) and a sticker.

They were a 10p mix bag in the white paper bag when we were kids, used to get one when the van came round or from the paper shop on the way home from school. Didn’t always get a choice of sweets if the van man had a queue of people waiting but if he was quiet he’d let you choose!

Paper shop also sold the old school sweets in the jars where you would get a quarter, scooped out and weighed on the scales. And out into a paper bag.

Pick and mix are completely different, sold by weight and not by the cost of individual sweets. They weren’t something we ever got as kids as too expensive!
Nowadays I think they charge per cup size…well the do in Asda. So you cram as much as you can into the cups as it’s not done on weight!

@FatOaf

You're right, OP. A mix-up (they were called lucky bags where I grew up) is a completely different thing from pick 'n' mix.

Yes a lucky bag to us was as @Schlerp says over priced bags of crap that were completely sealed so you didn’t know what you were getting. Always got a shit cracker type toy and not enough sweets to justify the price!

I’ve never heard of a ‘mix up’ but maybe it’s an age/region thing.

It’s a 50p mix to me!

Never used “mix up” in this way.

Definitely not a pick and mix though. The clue is in the name - you get to pick the things you have in that and pay by the weight! Your “mix up” is prepacked so no picking involved!

Our local sweet shop didn’t sell those sweets ready bagged. Either way, we just referred to them as ‘penny sweets’ and would done even if they’d been pre-selected, although the gradually they stopped being only a penny and became more expensive! Pick and Mix was as others have said, weight based selection from Woolworths or the Cinema.

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.

Same - Scotland.
The shop or ice-cream van prefilled mix-up bags probably for speed, save kids dithering over which penny sweets they wanted.

I'm so old I remember a mix up when I pointed to what I wanted and the shop keeper put them in to a bag, 1p or 1/2p sweets. It was never as good when they started making up the bags themselves. Mix up, price per sweet.

Pick n mix is by weight.

Mix up ... Aahh the memories!

Mix up = local newsagent with a special tray with compartments and each item has a cost, you pick what you want and pay

Pick and mix = weighed out and stupidly expensive

10p mix up. Our corner shop still sells 25p mixes.

Pick n mix was the expensive shit they brought into cinemas

A mix up was a pre made up bag from the penny sweet counter where you could also pay per item with a member of staff serving you. Pick n mix is self service and was generally wrapped sweets and sold by weight or in more recent years in some places by cup size. Woolworths added their Kids pick n mix to the offering when I was a child which was more along the lines of a newsagents penny sweet counter but you picked your own and payed by weight. I miss Woolworths kids picknmix.

You’re right. Except where I live in Scotland I’ve only heard it called a mixture or 10/20/50p mix

A mix was a pre bagged variety of sweets -10,20 or 50p usually. Pick n mix you selected your own. We could get both at our local shop.

I remember fruit salads, black jacks, dummies were all 2p and there was a little wrapped chew called a mojo that was 1/2p so you had to have two as half pennies didn't exist anymore.

Pick N Mix in London but maybe some other parts of the country are called a mix up. X

I’ve never heard of a mix up but that might be a regional thing. We used to get 10p mixes from the corner shop. That wasn’t the same as a pick n mix.

It was a 10 or 20 penny mix up when I was a kid - you went to the shop and chose whatever sweets you wanted and they were put in a white paper bag. There were blackjacks, rhubarb and custard, flying saucers etc. Pick and mix is the very expensive stuff you now buy by weight in odeon cinemas.