I knew what you meant Raven. My mum had a 'message bag' that she carried when going for her messages. Like other words and phrases of my younger days, its been dropped from my vocabulary seeing as I've lived 2/3 of my life in England.
When I first moved I asked for plain lemonade. Its just lemonade. I buy sweets, not sweeties. And they say scone in a very strange way down here.. 😉