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". It appears in that form in Richard Harding Davis' 1897 book Soldier of Fortune.

It can refer to:

• The Chocolate Soldier, a 1908 operetta by Oscar Straus, based on the play Arms and the Man.
• The Chocolate Soldier (film), a 1941 film version of the operetta, starring Nelson Eddy
• A 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• Chocolate Soldier (drink), a chocolate-flavored soft drink originally made by Monarch Beverage Company of Atlanta in the 1960s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.[1]
• 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