The Mishna Berurah states (205:5) soft ontions one does not make a vorie pri haadoma, except in areas where they are eaten without bread, but in our areas where raw garlic and raw onions re not eaten by Bnai adom even when soft without bread the brocha is shehakoland he quotes the nishmas adom that the brocha is shehhakol.
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