brown goods

"In the old days it was very much about what were called brown goods - everything around the TV set and related technologies. But now, it's quite extraordinary how many sectors converge."

The brand is Glenfiddich, the single malt Scotch sold by William Grant & Sons, which is trying to take advantage of an unexpected trend among American drinkers: an upturn in sales for Scotch, bourbon and other liquors that are known in the industry as brown goods.

And now we're lumbered with Capital One, the acceptable face of usury, who help us purchase our milk, clothes, brown goods, cola, fighting juice and anti-depressants on tick, before ushering us to the edge of the abyss, admittedly at a competitive APR rate for the first six months.

Brown goods are presumably not required by his opposite number over the road at Old Trafford.

Villas-Boas could wedge a flat cap onto his knapper and try to vend brown goods from the back of a yellow Robin Reliant van and it still wouldn't be the same.