I usually try to avoid Campus Corner most days, its effervescent youthfulness strangling me silently as I stare into the dank depths of my own offensive middle age. Still, it’s the only place in Norman to get some Pepe Delgado’s and their critically-lauded (by my girlfriend, at least) avocado salsa; for that it’s worth the abyss staring back at you, if only for a few sustained moments of mushy green happiness.
Rightly situated at 786 Asp Avenue, just past the smoky haze of the Sublime-loving dispensary next door, Pepe’s is a real rarity not only on Campus Corner, but in Norman and pretty much most of Oklahoma City as well: as the sign says on the black refrigerator near the cash register, there’s no Tex-Mex here, so don’t even bother asking for queso, guey.