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That's not accurate! You can get several buckets of milk from one milk cow...
Milk is op and every food is shit compared to it. The only reason someone would still eat mutton pie is because it's a byproduct from compost.
The problem with milk is, though, that a great deal of the player base doesn't know its potential. Today I spawned in a city which had freaking rails from the sheep pen to the bakery but a cow pen was completely missing.

Also, I made a cow pen and five buckets for a smaller town today. Two buckets got stolen before I could milk the cow for the first time. Therefore, I could only make two buckets of whole milk and one bucket of skim milk.  I placed all of the buckets near the nursery (which was in the center of the town and not in a building) and announced them. Then, I watched how my milk was used from a distance. Sadly, in ten minutes waiting no one touched the buckets, even tough it was right in front of the wet nurses which rather ate the pies from the bakery above. I suicided because of that...
So, the problem I see with your math is , firstly, that milk isn't always available (especially true for early towns) and, secondly, many people don't see it as a food source which is kinda sad.

Furthermore, your model doesn't put into consideration that food isn't used in an efficient way  and overeating is quiet common. I don't count my pips before I take a bite from a pie or eat stew. Also, I don't time my eating and , thus, I usually eat (and overeat) when its convenient for me. In my opinion,  people which avoid overeating waste time and I don't see much difference here to people which try to maximize their yum bonus.

Someone repeatedly said in this thread that yum is a toy which isn't true (imho). Yum is a pretty useful tool in many situation. As an Eve or when food is scarce, for example, you should always try to eat food in order so that you maximize the yum bonus (if access to the food is easily provided of course). I am someone which spends a lot of time outside of the village in search for ropes, iron or rabbits. It's easy to get a yum bonus of at least four if you have to travel through different biomes and no waste of time. Afterwards when you are back in the city you can continue your yum chain.

I am no yum enthusiast tho. The largest yum bonus  I ever had was 16 if I remember correctly and then I got stabbed (because drama happened).  Usually, when I am in a descent town I yum until I have +10 and I don't make food like green beans or popcorn but I'll eat them for yum when I spot them on the ground. Pies is a different story because they all look the same.  I'd not recommend to make berry or berry and carrot pie because people usually don't look for them. It's too much labor to fill a bowl of berries and you are most likely the only person which uses them for yum. All other people will feel pranked if they expected a meat pie and get a berry pie.

Tacos, on the other hand, are great for getting rid of this stupid pork meat in the bakery and I'm always thankful to the person which is making them.