I have corn meal mush for breakfast once every couple months and save some for frying the next day. Love fried scrapple for breakfast also MMM good.
Vehve, I've used dark belgian candi syrup in a dark strong belgian ale I made once. Stouts use roasted barley to give it their dark color, and bitter flavor. Dark belgian candi syrup has more flavor but not as much as molasses and wont give the dark belgian ale that stout bitterness or dryness like rossted barley and black patent malt. I made a 'small beer' recipe from Goerge Washingtons diary, he made 200 gallons of it a month. No barley malt at all, just molasses water and hops. It was only 2% abv and almost undrinkable it was so bitter. I do love molasses cookies and on my cornbread pancakes.