In the past it was especially popular among coal miners and their families due to its basic ingredient - egg.
Egg belonged to non-standard dishes because of low living standard of the population.
It was yellow like the sun, which the coal miners couldn't see while working underground.
[1] They took funšterc into coal pits and ate it on their break, but only at special days.
The dish is prepared by mixing white flour with water, eggs and salt.