Oven Chips- um, what?!

oil down the drain = FATBERGS

they weren't alarmist ads for deep fat fryers

They were for chip pans, which is just a pot with a fryer basket

yeah one of the USPs of deep fat fryers was you weren't supposed to be able to burn your house down with them

Would love one of those teaspoon of oil fryers but they seem inordinately expensive.
Not really heard what the chips etc produced are like.

Also surprised that somebody would buy oven chips then fry them. I thought supermarkets sold precut chips without whatever processing made them oven chips.

My parents used to own a Zyliss potato chipper (a fantastic piece of early 70s industrial design) and a chip pan (a grease encrusted lump of metal - IIRC it was dark blue and the bakelite knob on the lid doubled as an adjustable vent). The chipper came with two cutters: wide and narrow. My parents never used the narrow one.

Our kitchens in university accommodation were sparsely equipped, but they did provide electric, thermostat-controlled deep-fat fryers, presumably to discourage students from drunkenly using a chip pan on the stove.

They are good for putting fish fingers in. Are fish fingers even a thing in the States?

Ah, OK, you call them fish sticks. I can't really argue with that.

Or if you're a "South Park" fan, "fish dicks."