Raising Cane’s is suing an Indiana shopping center after finding out that a lease banned the sale of chicken fingers, stemming from a noncompete agreement former property owners had reached with a nearby McDonald’s in 1984.

“It’s really wild,” Corby Kummer told Boston Public Radio on Monday. “The idea that McDonald’s takes the exclusive right in a shopping center to sell deboned chicken products…completely new to me.”

Kummer is the executive director of the Food and Society policy program at the Aspen Institute, a senior editor at The Atlantic and a senior lecturer at the Tufts Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy.