**Hot rock cook with tree juice? Me do? How pick good jug?** **Tree Juice on Hot Rock?** Hmm. Big question. Some juice good. Some juice make mad smoke. * **Fancy Juice (First Squeeze):** No good for hot rock. Make black puff. Taste like burnt stick.

Big talk in caves today about shiny juice for cook-fire. Many hunters and gatherers confused. Which fat juice good for hot rock? Shelves at trade-place full of sun-flower juice, smash-berry juice, and even nut-goo juice. Some juice make big sizzle. Some juice make big black smoke. Wise ones say look at juice before put on fire. If fire rock very hot for mammoth steak, need right juice. Some shiny juice get angry on hot rock. Make bad smoke. Bad smoke make food taste like burnt stick and give tummy grumble. Wise ones say some juice good for BIG fire, and other juice good for little fire or for putting on top of cold berries. Use head-bone, pick right juice for right cook. No want to ruin good saber-tooth hunt with stinky smoke. Thag, spear sharpener: "Me try cook fish with green smash-berry juice. Fire rock get hot, juice make much bad smoke! Fish taste like ash. Thag throw fish at wolf." Bleep, a local root digger: "Me see Thag's black smoke. Me use clear sun-flower juice. My roots cook good. No bad smoke. Me eat good." Zorp, Guardian of the Communal Fire Pit: "Tribe must learn juice! Hot fire need strong juice. Drizzle on mammoth salad need flavor juice. If your cook-spot make big stink cloud, you do wrong. No be a rock-head." Story by Oog from Caveman Talk Fire, on the scene.