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.

We just called the penny sweets.

@Cornettoninja

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.

The giant cola bottles were a whole 10p! Almost half my money.

Mix ups still exist in white paper bags, sometimes you can choose what goes in them. Maybe it's regional?

10p mix (no bubblies) from the corner shop

Pick n mix - Woolworths or the cinema (pictures)

Mix up - misunderstanding

This is correct!

10p mixture here (central scotland) sometimes pre maid and sometimes you could choose your items. Would have known what 10p mix or mix up was too.

Definitely different to pick n mix which was a really expensive very rare treat.

We hardly ever got pic n mix as kids, like twice a year maybe, but a 10p mix up was pretty much a weekly thing, either from the corner shop or the wee shop in the park.

Never heard of a mix up. Always a pick and mix here

5p 10p or 20p mixture for me. 50p would have been unfathomable. Pick and mix was Woolworths

Mix up. Yanbu.

They were penny sweets here from the newsagent, you told them how many you had in the bag. Pick n mix was weighed not counted and you only got it in the cinema really.

I used to get 40p every Saturday for penny sweets! I'm sad you don't really find them any more.

YANBU. If it is already bagged up there is no picking involved. I've never known it as pick n mix or seen bagged sweets advertised as Pick n Mix.

All the Pick n Mix had loads of rows of sweets in where you pick it yourself.

it's a mix up. I think you have to be a certain age to remember them though. I will never forgot the time someone gave me 50p and I spent it all on mix up. I had a huge bag but my mum took it away from me and I got into trouble.

I can't imagine having a 50p one back then, no way!
I can see why your Mum took it off you!
If it's an age thing then I'm 44 if that helps.

@MrsHunch

10p mix (no bubblies) from the corner shop

Pick n mix - Woolworths or the cinema (pictures)

Mix up - misunderstanding

This is correct!

Haha this made me chuckle 😂😂 I'll settle for a 10p mix. At least we can all agree it most certainly isn't a pick n mix

A socialist theory:

Mix up = working class/Labour
Pick n Mix = middle class/Tory

Agree with your definition of pick n mix. Have never heard of the other being called mix up though! Did love being given 20p and a paper bag in the village shop though. The agony of wondering whether to put a whole 5p towards a Highland Toffee!

Just read a bit further! Never had pre-filled bags, always chose your own. Wouldn't be allowed now, all those grubby hands going in each open box on the shelf!

there was pick and mix which was the big sweets in woolworths etc and then penny sweets from the newsagent. never called them mix up and if anythinig would be pick and mix but mostly just penny sweets. Also never had them pre picked in a nag, you just always chose your own!

@Yarnivore

South East in the 70s and a mix up (5p or 10p usually) was a self selected choice of penny sweets.

Pic'n'mix was/is different as it's bought by weight.

Yep same here. Penny sweets that you chose in a white bags or pic n mix from Woolie. Mix up ? Sounds like the same people who say pack lunch!

We called it a 10p mix or a 50p mix (Glasgow).
Maybe mix up is the posher version of that 😂

Agree pick in mix is where you get a bag, fill it yourself and get it weighed

From the corner shop - 10p mix up in a white paper bag (cola bottles, pink shrimps, flying sauce

Pick and Mix - fancy sweets nicked bought from Woolies (Woolworths)

Pick and mix is where you pick your own using a scoop, and pay by weight.

We never had a 'mix up', but had a 10p mix/20p mix etc (my Disney-dadding father used to give me a whole shiny pound to buy sweets with when I stayed with him EOW. That bought a feast's worth!). All sweets in tubs in a glass counter under the newsagent's till priced at 1 to 3p each. You could ask them to choose the sweets, or once your maths was quick enough, you could select the individual sweets yourself eg 3 cola bottles, 2 fangs, 2 fruit salads, and a black jack (total 10p). As for hygiene, the big tubs of sweets used to come with little plastic tweezers, so it wasn't an issue.

Where I am, it's a 50p mix if it's already in the bag, or pick n mix if you physically put the sweets in the bag yourself.

I think you were allowed to call it what you wanted, without judgemental people saying one was wrong and the other was right. Personally, we were only allowed to buy sweets in packets, as other kids had handled or breathed on the loose ones, not that we were rich or posh, but came from a very poor background where family members had died of TB, so extremely wary of 'germs'