Unresolved argument help

Question

I'm getting "Meat cannot be resolved" error on the following code and can't figure out why. Meat is a class in my Alpha package and I'm trying to pass the class name as and argument to orderFood method. This happens with all the classes and I can't figure out why.
package Alpha;
import java.util.*;
import csci130.KeyboardReader;
public class Pantry {
     List<Garnish> garnishes;
     List<Sauce> sauces;
     List<Meat> meats;
     public Pantry(){
          List<Garnish> garnishes= new ArrayList(10);
          List<Sauce> sauces= new ArrayList(10);
          List<Meat> meats= new ArrayList(10);
          orderFood(Meat, 10);
          orderFood(Garnish, 10);
          orderFood(Sauce, 10);
     }It doesn't give an error when using it as a Generic for the List, only when I try to pass it as an argument or use the constructor. Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

Here is the oderFood method
public void orderFood(Class foodType, int numItems){
          for(int i= 0; i <= numItems; i++){
               addFood(foodType.newInstance());
     }But I don't think it's because it's not initialized, because it takes a Class argument, not an object.