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I'm from the province of Alicante, Spain. So we share much with Catalonia including the language. The word aioli, broken down means garlic and oil in Catalan. All, pronounced ah-ll, the two LL's are pronounced like in the word paella, i, which means and in Catalan, and oli, which is oil. You basically get "all i oli" garlic and oil. I remember my grandmother making it every time we had paella while my father and uncles worked in the orchards. We still make it quite often. Depending on how much energy I have, we will make it the original way, or if I'm feeling lazy and in a hurry, we do the egg, lemon, garlic, oil, and salt with a hand blender. The trick to making it taste good using this method is to use the right amount of lemon and egg so as to not make a mess of it. Done right, it can be quite tasty.