For those who paid attention, today's racial and political tensions are just a pot boiling over, one that has been simmering on the back burner for years.
If you make it to the end of a really good party, there's always a moment usually as the dawn sizzles through the window cracks when the loose-limbed stragglers simmering on the dancefloor burst into one last dying high.
But one of its catchphrases remained, simmering on a back burner: "We are the 99 percent".
In one village, a pot is simmering on an open fire, abandoned.
There was one more story bubbling in Washington, which has been simmering on the back burner for a few weeks now -- the Rahmwars.
The chicken was simmering on the stove in the corner.
Do visions of stock pots simmering on six-burner Viking ranges dance in your head?
If they're simmering on gas mark 1, they'll go for John or Susan.
Hence, racial resentment had already been simmering on the shock-jock media burners.
Kahn's dictum, Wiseman confesses with a sweet, conspiratorial smile, is constantly simmering on the back burner of his imagination.
Adjust with a little more fish sauce or salt as you like, and keep it simmering on the lowest heat.
