Lemon juice is good on pancakes as it helps lower the GI.
I like them with lemon juice but when I checked my bottle of juice it was BBE Oct 2009.. I had been in town as well and could have bought a lemon but thought oh I have lemon juice at home !!! lol
If it's a BBE date, then it usually lasts long beyond that date. BBE dates are more for supermarket stock control purposes than any danger from consumption.
Its like water that is advertise by "being filtered throuh rock for thousands of years.... best before June 2011" lol!!