SHELLEY – If you’ve ever attended the Eastern Idaho State Fair, chances are you’re familiar with Thomas and Ann Winder.

The Shelley couple are the names behind Winder’s Original Funnel Cakes, a mobile food truck serving customers since 1985. Tyler Winder, their son who now runs the business, tells EastIdahoNews.com his parents bought the business in the 1980s when it had been a church-owned operation.

“Back in the day during the 1970s and early 1980s, the majority of the food booths at the fair were owned by different churches,” Tyler explains. “It helped (fund) budgets.”

At the time, Tyler, a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, says his ward (congregation) owned the booth that served a similar deep-fried dessert, along with hamburgers and fries.

Sometime during

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