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'.
Emergency ration chocolate bars were made to be high in energy value, easy to carry, and able to withstand high temperatures. Withstanding high temperatures was critical since infantrymen would often be outdoors, sometimes in tropical or desert conditions, with the bars located close to their bodies.
A 1940 emergency ration Hershey's chocolate bar. The bar was hardly the only sweet in the D-Day rations. Sugar was an easy way to pep up the troops, and the quick burst of energy it provided made a welcome addition to kit bags. Along with the D rations, troops received three days worth of K ration packs.
Soldiers were given a variety of food, including candy, processed cheese, sugar, chewing gum, coffee, instant beverages, canned meat, and even cigarettes. But the chocolate, despite tasting horrible, was the most vital food as it provided the soldiers with a boost of energy in the most critical times.
Soon, pallets of Tootsie Roll candies parachuted from the sky to the First Marine Division! While they were not ammunition, this candy from the sky provided well needed nourishment for the troops.
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'.
The Chocolate Bars of WWII
The most famous chocolate from the military is the Ration D bar. This chocolate bar was given out to soldiers during WWII, not as a treat but as a means of survival. The requirements for the military chocolate bar were very clear: The bars needed to be about four ounces.
They were called 'chocos' or 'chocolate soldiers' because it was thought they would melt in the heat. The aim of the 'chocos' was to interrupt the Japanese march from Milne Bay to Port Moresby, until the experienced men of the AIF could be brought back from the Middle East.
New boy at strict Catholic High School, Jerry Renault, is bullied into selling boxes of chocolates for the school's annual fund-raising event. The sadistic headmaster, Brother Leon, and 'The Vigils', a viscious gang of school thugs, make Jerry's life hell when he decides he won't be pushed around anymore.
Jerry wins the boxing match in the film, pummeling Archie and winning the praise of his classmates, much to his own chagrin as he has now played into the Vigils' manipulations. In the novel, Jerry is beaten to semi-consciousness by Janza and taken to the hospital, having lost the war.
Chocolate is an energy dense product, which means being small in portion size it is high in calories. So having some of it can help you going for a long time. It is also likely to be one of those products that is going to be high in demand when a disaster or such emergency follows.
During the Revolutionary War, chocolate, a favorite treat of George Washington, became part of his soldier's rations. It was prized for its combined kick of caffeine and sugar; it even served as occasional payment to American troops in lieu of money.
Chocolate is toxic because it contains a chemical called theobromine, as well as caffeine. Theobromine is the main toxin in chocolate and is very similar to caffeine. Both chemicals are used medicinally as a diuretic, heart stimulant, blood vessel dilator, and a smooth muscle relaxant.
Chocolate has a significant amount of sugar. In addition to sugar, chocolate also has two other neuroactive drugs, caffeine and theobromine. Chocolate not only stimulates the opiate receptors in our brains, it also causes a release of neurochemicals in the brain's pleasure centers.
Chocolate is not a controlled substance, and it cannot be prescribed — meaning for all intents and purposes, it is not a drug. However, for a person who has been struggling with compulsive overeating or any other type of eating disorder, chocolate can act like a drug.
Chocolate gift has a strong symbolic meaning, that of love, passion, care and, happy life. It is a great simple gift that can surprise your partner and make them feel special.
The Chocolate War is written for ages 12 and up. The age range reflects readability and not necessarily content appropriateness.
Although masterfully structured and rich in theme, The Chocolate War was the most challenged book of fiction in 1998. Specific challenges were raised concerning sexual content, offensive language, and violence.
1981 - Michigan - Challenged and temporarily removed from the English curriculum in two Lapeer high schools because of "offensive language and explicit descriptions of sexual situations in the book."
Kalanchoe tomentosa 'Chocolate Soldier' (Chocolate Soldier Panda Plant) - An interesting and attractive small slow growing succulent subshrub that grows to about 2 feet tall with narrow slightly concave and elliptical succulent pale brownish green leaves that are covered in tiny hairs, giving the plant a velvety look ...
Reserve soldiers in WWII were placed in the path of the highly trained and jungle-experienced Japanese soldiers, and it was predicted by some that they would melt in the heat – hence 'chocolate' soldiers.
(Australia, slang) A person with dark skin tone. (Australia, obsolete) A militiaman or conscript; chocolate soldier.
So in 1937, the Army got the Hershey Company to make a special bar that would "taste a little better than a boiled potato." It used skim milk and oat flour, and it tasted bitter (and we don't mean the pleasing sweet bitter taste dark chocolate has).
Chocolate Soldier was a chocolate-flavored beverage produced by the Monarch Beverage Company of Atlanta, Georgia. The drink was sold in glass bottles from 1966–1994. Chocolate Soldier was made by Citrus Products Company in Illinois in the 1950s and 1960s. It was bottled all over the United States.
It appeared that there had even been demonstrations to thank Big Brother for raising the chocolate ration to twenty grammes a week. And only yesterday, he reflected, it had been announced that the ration was to be reduced to twenty grammes a week.