Cheese
Mask
Mask verb - To change the dress or looks of so as to conceal true identity.
Both words in one sentence
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Parodied in the Strong Bad Email Looking Old, where Strong Bad uses nacho cheese as a facial mask while covering his eyes with tortilla chips.
Source: Cucumber Facial -
Chekhov's Gun: At the beginning of "The Mask of Rat-Jitsu", Geronimo takes out a vial of a rare, strong-smelling cheese from his safe and inadvertently puts it in his clothes.
Source: Literature / Geronimo Stilton - Also, they made eating the broccoli soldiers easier by drowning them in cheese sauce, which can legitimately mask some bitter flavors (and add a fair number of calories and fat in the process, reducing the health benefits of the veggie underneath and enforcing this trope).
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