pale red

The interior spread features the creepy “Night Family” illuminated in a pale red glow.

“There is still plenty of daylight left — the sky over the sea has turned a pale red,” Mr. Stevens muses, “but it would seem that all these people who have been gathering on this pier for the past half-hour are now willing night to fall.”

Easy-drinking Mexican lager stained pale red from tomato juice and puckering with lime, salt and chile, they went down remarkably fast.

The result was a fascinating pale red, or dark rosé, that was earthy and lightly fruity.

“Of all the alt-proteins we tried, this product most resembled the look of the original — actual ground beef with a pale red color and juice that was almost bloody. ... Uncooked, the protein felt like a pile of small, hard, wet nubs that were loosely jammed together. Cooked, it firmed up and had a chew that was similar to the real thing.”