@TheEdVerse Dear Ed, are there tacos in Faerun, or something like them at least? If so, where would someone find them and what culture would they be in? Asking for my taco loving players.

— Leslie Courtney (@LeslieCourtne14) November 13, 2020

“Taco” is not a name known on Toril, but fried hardcrust roundbreads (what some real-worlders might call pitas, but fried crispy-hard) that have been stuffed with a hot cooked mix of minced-meat, spices, … 2)
…vegetables (diced and fried onions and/or potatoes, and/or Brussels sprouts, and/or asparagus, and/or leeks, and/or artichoke hearts, and/or radishes, and/or mushrooms) and sauces ARE known and devoured eagerly in many…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 13, 2020

3)
…eateries, especially in the Vilhon, the lands south of there to the Shaar and beyond (so, places like Innarlith and south to include Luiren and Var the Golden), and are slowly spreading along the trade routes in all… 4)
…directions, to Chessenta and eastern Tethyr and Amn, to Calimshan and the Lake of Steam cities, and to Scornubel. You can even order them in some inns and taverns (yes, they’re becoming “the new thing” in tavern fare) in…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 13, 2020

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…Secomber.
The meat tends to be whatever’s plentiful and cheap locally, from lamb to rabbit and all manner of small scurrying things, from “tree-cats” [squirrels] to rats, and the flavor profile varies from merely savory to… 6)
…hot-spiced; most establishments will ask “hot” or “warming” (= fiery or mild) when you order.
So, a folded-over, exposed-spilling-edge taco is a rare thing indeed, and cheese-drenched tacos are a special variant version…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 13, 2020

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…anywhere they can be had, but the same sort of ingredients in essentially the same combination (so, a flat, closed taco, which varies from a “handpie” in that it was never full of gravy, and its outer pastry is thin and fried… 8)
…crispy-hard) can now be had in many places.
What it’s called varies from place to place; along the Sword Coast it tends to be called a “fryhard,” in the Vilhon, a “crunchtart,” in the South, a “hotbite,” and along the…#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 13, 2020

9)
…trade-routes, any of these three or even something else.
Elminster and the Seven all like “handfry pies” made with six or seven sorts of mushrooms, parsnips, leeks or spring onions (all diced), and strong cheeses (no meat). 10)
The shell of a Torilian taco, whatever it’s called, is often rather like cornbread in its composition. Or a crisp naan (and is sometimes made by “gluing” two round-tortilla-like discs together with cheese).#Realmslore

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 13, 2020

My mouth watered a bit. I presume, Ed is a fine cook too!
Sadly, no. I'm a great kitchen assistant (food prep and dishes). I was raised by grandmas and maiden aunts who shooed menfolks out of the kitchen, then married a wonderful wife who did all the cooking. Now that she's 85 and bedridden, I am the "cook." Hahahaha (hideous laughter).

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 13, 2020

Yes, tacos are now Realms canon! Cardiologists take note! ;}

— Ed Greenwood (@TheEdVerse) November 13, 2020