A “bucket list” is a list of things to do before one dies “(“kicks the bucket”). The list usually doesn’t involve a bucket (such as a bucket of KFC chicken), but there have been several jokes.
 
“Is there dual irony that KFC is on my ‘bucket list’?” was posted on Twitter on April 24, 2009. “Eating KFC in KY. check that off the bucket list. lol” was posted on Twitter on March 15, 2010.
 
“I fetched a pail of water and ate a whole KFC family meal to myself. So that’s two things I can cross off my bucket list” was posted on Reddit—3amjokes on February 20, 2018.
 
   
Wiktionary: bucket list
Etymology
From kick the bucket (“to die”) + list, hence a “list of things to do before you die”. The term was coined by American and British screenwriter Justin Zackham in his screenplay for the 2007 film The Bucket List. Zackham had created his own list called “Justin’s List of Things to Do Before I Kick the Bucket” which he then shortened to “Justin’s Bucket List”. The first item on his list was to have a screenplay produced at a major Hollywood studio. After a time, it occurred to him that the notion of a “bucket list” could itself be fodder for a film, so he wrote a screenplay about two dying men racing to complete their own bucket lists with the time they had left. Articles about the movie are the earliest known uses.
Pronunciation
Hyphenation: buck‧et list
Noun
bucket list (plural bucket lists)
1. (idiomatic) A list of things to accomplish before one’s death.
           
Twitter
Marv‏
@docmarvy
Is there dual irony that KFC is on my “bucket list”?
10:24 AM - 24 Apr 2009
   
Twitter
Lou‏
@unsupervised
The KFC Bucket List #filmfoodeating (Referring to The Bucket List, a 2007 film.—ed.)
12:47 PM - 20 May 2009
 
Twitter
Marshall Hodge‏
@DW17
kfc grilled chicken is on my bucket list
10:14 PM - 23 Aug 2009
 
Twitter
Kelsey‏
@PROworkGRESS
eating KFC in KY. check that off the bucket list. lol.
5:44 PM - 15 Mar 2010
 
Twitter
D-Ponk‏
@PonkoPants
1. Plastic
2. Hyacinth
3. Metal
4. 9Litre
5. KFC
6. Kick the
My bucket list
6:08 AM - 6 Aug 2015
 
Twitter 
Daи‏
@Dan_Haak
My bucket list:
- kfc bucket
- water bucket
- the chum bucket
- waste bucket
6:03 PM - 21 Aug 2015
 
Twitter
Erudito Jones‏
@EruditoJ
My bucket list:
1. Pail
2. Plastic
3. KFC
11:00 AM - 11 Dec 2015
 
Reddit—Upforfun
[Jokes] One day I want to eat a full KFC bucket (self.UPFORFUN)
submitted September 7, 2016 by Say_Me_Your_dady
One day I want to eat a full KFC bucket
Just something to cross off my bucket list
       
Twitter
Sweaty The Dog‏
@SweatyTDog
My bucket list for 2017
Plastic
Spittoon
KFC Bargain
10:46 AM - 31 Dec 2016
 
Twitter
The Real Woody©‏
@DavidJEWood
My bucket list:
1. KFC 6 piece bucket
2. KFC 8 piece bucket
3. KFC 10 piece bucket
4. KFC 12 piece bucket
11:39 AM - 29 Oct 2017
 
Reddit—3amjokes
I fetched a pail of water and ate a whole KFC family meal to myself… self.3amjokes
Submitted February 20, 2018 by joeChump
So that’s two things I can cross off my bucket list.
COMMENTS
biscuitboy1211
Yeah I don’t get ot
 
infinit187K
Bucket of water and a bucket of chicken
 
Reddit—Jokes
I fetched a pail of water and ate a whole KFC family meal to myself…
submitted February 20, 2018 by joeChump
So that’s two things I can cross off my bucket list.
 
Twitter
simon read‏
@simonnread
With all this KFC controversy I think I want to try their fried chicken. I’ve put it on my bucket list.
6:52 AM - 21 Feb 2018