Chocolate Soldier

Chocolate Soldier is an expression referring to a good-looking but useless warrior, popularised by George Bernard Shaw's 1894 play Arms and the Man. The term originates as a derogatory label for a soldier who would not fight but would look good in a uniform, shortened from 'Chocolate Cream Soldier'. "'Do you agree, Mr. Clay,' she asked, 'or do you prefer the chocolate-cream soldiers, in red coats and gold lace?' (from: Soldier of Fortune by Richard Harding Davis. 1897)"

It can refer to:


 * The Chocolate Soldier, a 1908 operetta by Oscar Straus, based on the play Arms and the Man
 * The Chocolate Soldier, a missionary recruitment pamphlet written by Charles Studd in 1912
 * The Chocolate Soldier (film), a 1941 film version of the operetta, starring Nelson Eddy
 * A chocolate liqueur-based cocktail, whose name is indirectly derived from the above - see List of cocktails
 * Chocolate Soldier (drink), a chocolate-flavored soft drink originally made by Monarch Beverage Company of Atlanta in the 1960s
 * A member of the Australian Army Reserve past or present; called 'Choco' for short. Usually a derogatory term. Also used derisively to refer to 'soft' soldiers in the Israeli Army.
 * Chocolate Soldier (Parliament), a Parliamentary assistant for an Opposition front-bench spokesman in the British House of Commons in the early 1970s, funded by the Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust
 * A member of the army of Chocolate Soldiers in The Wonder City of Oz (1940)
 * Hot Chocolate Soldiers a 1934 Walt Disney cartoon
 * One of the common names of Kalanchoe tomentosa, a succulent plant
 * Two brush-footed butterflies:
 * Junonia iphita, also called the chocolate pansy
 * Junonia hedonia, also called the brown pansy