Danish Cookie Dilema

You know those "Danish" cookies that come in round tins that you see all over around Christmas time? Have you noticed that they are not all the same? Have you also noticed that while they all seem to use the exact same immages of these cookies, after the tin is opened they don't always look like they do on the outside? It seems to me that the real ones are getting harder and harder to come by. I find this quite annoying. Some of them don't have the large sugar crystals like in the pictures, just normal sugar sprinkled on top - which is Not the same. It has an entirely different effect. Some of them don't even have any sugar on them at all which is terribly disappointing! Now normally there are a couple types in the tin that don't have it, but I've encountered tins in which all the ones that normally do have the sugar don't. And then there are the ones that are much too soft and crumble apart into fine dust almost at a mere touch. The Real ones are hard crisp short-bread like cookies, but these alternate ones seem to be a lot more airy, don't have the proper crunch, and turn slightly chewey and stale really fast. There are also the ones that taste like coconut which is just wrong! The trouble is that there is no way to tell if you've got the right ones before they are open, and then it's too late to take them back.