I was working on a site today, realizing I am trying to get the search module (search is horrible in Joomla) to work like a filter. I use filters to good effect on many sites, and they mostly make search irrelevant where they can be deployed. A category filter for sure, and a tag filter option would help many other developers and producers.
Please consider this for a future build.
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a 'spit' is a rod upon which savory food was roasted, turned in ancient times by a 'jack', a middle English word for an ordinary laborer (eg jack of all trades, steeplejack, lumberjack). Today, this job is usually referred to as a 'pitmaster'.