Soup bulb

I believe the answer is:

leek

(Other definitions for leek that I've seen before include "Vegetable symbol of Wales" , "Bulb" , "Cylindrical vegetable" , "Eat the vegetable and keel over" , "Staffordshire town?" .)

I've seen this clue in The New York Times.

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